reenforce
Americanverb (used with object)
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Two fresh Indian brigades, supported by mountain artillery and heavy mortars, were rushed to reenforce Towang.
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Wars tend to reenforce national stereotypes and to harden ideologies.
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From streets, from factories, from jails went forth thousands of volunteers and conscripts to reenforce desperate, haggard foresters.
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When necessary, parts of it reenforce or prolong the firing line.
From Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911 Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos. 1 to 19) by United States War Department
At the same time it was now possible for Mackensen to reduce his forces in Dobrudja to a minimum and reenforce the troops operating over in Rumania proper.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
The talk from Vogel just reenforced how Westbrook himself felt about his game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
This tendency is further reenforced by a generous tax subsidy to companies that pay their employees partially in the form of health insurance.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2012
Like the ist, the 6th was reenforced with artillery, tanks, engineers, pioneers, medicos, service troops.
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One of the doctors' orders, which had been violated last week and would be rigidly reenforced: Ike's midday break of 2? hours for lunch and a nap.
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Around my room, growing stacks of paperback books reenforced my assurance.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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There are two ways of relieving a weak wing, and the obvious one of reenforcing it is not of necessity the best.
From The Eye of Zeitoon by Talbot Mundy
In battle the latter method will be the rule rather than the exception, and to familiarize the men with such conditions the combat exercises of the battalion should include both methods of reenforcing.
From Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911 Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos. 1 to 19) by United States War Department
The reenforcing of the firing line by driblets of a squad or a few men has no appreciable effect.
From Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911 Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos. 1 to 19) by United States War Department
Costigan knew well and respected highly the Nevian scientist-captain, and at his suggestion much time was spent in reenforcing the super-ship's armament to the iron-driven limit of theoretical and mechanical possibility.
From Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
The lord of the land became the schoolmaster of his subjects, reenforcing the effect of viva voce teaching by means of a periodical published expressly for their moral uplift.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller
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