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Definition: Beef Up |
Beef UpVerb1. Make strong or stronger; "This exercise will strengthen your upper body". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Beef UpSynonyms: fortify (v), strengthen (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: weaken (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Beef Up |
| English words defined with "beef up": Collared ♦ Hung beef ♦ To put up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "beef up": BUBBLE AND SQUEAK ♦ COOK, LARDER, Corn ... Horn ♦ garde manger. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "beef up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قوى يسمن, حصن (arm, bastion, bulwark, castle, chateau, citadel, entrench, fort, fortification, fortify, fortress, hold, immunize, redoubt, stronghold, tower, trench), حشا (cake, cram, jam, load, pack, pad, poke, quilt, ram, stuff, tamp, tampon, wad), أرسل إمدادات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | posílit (augment, brace, build up, buttress, corroborate, fortify, invigorate, recruit, reinforce, revitalize, strengthen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | renforcer, fortifier, envoyer des renforts, étoffer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | aufmotzen (camp up, get cheeky, get fresh, pop up, revamp, vamp up, zap up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לת'בר (fortify, reinforce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megerõsít (approve, attach, brace, confirm, consolidate, corroborate, defilade, depose, fasten, fix, fortify, harden, homologate, man, reinforce, strengthen, underpin, uphold, verify, vouch), javít (amend, correct, darn, emend, improve, maintain, mend, optimize, repair, to ameliorate, to amend, to break a record, to cobble, to darn, to improve, to mend, to put in repair, to touch up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | aumentare (add, advance, aggrandise, aggrandize, amplify, augment, compound, eke, enhance, escalate, gain, gather, grow, heighten, increase, increments, Mount, put on, put up, raise, rise, step up, swell, to increase). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eefbay upay reforçar (fortify, increase, reinforce, step up, thicken), fortalecer (arm, brace, build up, confirm, consolidate, fortify, invigorate, nerve, reinforce, shore up, stiffen, strengthen, toughen). (various references) reforzar a (brace, tighten, tighten up). (various references) kuvvetlendirmek (brace up, build up, confirm, fortify, hop up, intensify, recruit, stiffen, strengthen, support), güçlendirmek (brace, cement, enforce, enrich, exalt, make strong, reinforce, soup up, steel, strengthen, support to, tone up, vivify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-f-p-u" | |
-2 letters: beef, beep. | |
-3 letters: bee, fee, feu, fub, pee, pub. | |
-4 letters: be, ef, pe, up. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 65 66 55 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100101 01100110 00100000 01010101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e e f   U p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0065 0066 0055 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3671717225582 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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