Word Meanings - REENFORCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet.
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- FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - TROOPSHIP
A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport. - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - SUPPORTATION
Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon. - ASSISTANCE
1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance, - GARMENT
Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16. - SUPPORTFUL
Abounding with support. Chapman. - FLEET-FOOT
Swift of foot. Shak. - SUPPORTLESS
Having no support. Milton. - FLEETINGLY
In a fleeting manner; swiftly. - FLEETING
Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments. Syn. -- Evanescent; ephemeral. See Transient. - ADDITIONALLY
By way of addition. - FORCEPS
The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies - STRENGTHENING
That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects. - MATERIALNESS
The state of being material. - FLEET
To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; - - said of a cable or hawser. (more info) vlieten to flow, OS. fliotan, OHG. fliozzan, G. fliessen, Icel. fljota to float, flow, Sw. flyta, D. flyde, L. pluere to rain, Gr. plu to swim, - FLEETEN
Fleeted or skimmed milk. Fleeten face, a face of the color of fleeten, i. e., blanched; hence, a coward. "You know where you are, you fleeten face." Beau. & Fl. - GARMENTURE
Clothing; dress. - FORCEFUL
Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden. - FORCEMENT
The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster. - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - DEFORCEOR
See DEFORCIANT - IMMATERIALIST
One who believes in or professes, immaterialism. - REARGUMENT
An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court. - DEFORCE
To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill. - REENFORCE
To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet. - IMMATERIAL
1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does - INSUPPORTABLE
Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.