beef up

phrasal verb

beefed up; beefing up; beefs up

informal

: to add weight, strength, or power to (something)

Security around the city will be beefed up during the event.

a politician looking to beef his image up

Examples of beef up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Harris campaign posted on social media multiple clips of Walz’s comments from the same segment, including one with the gaffe, and also shared an MSNBC clip in which a college voter slammed Vance’s claim that school shootings should be addressed by beefing up school security. —Koh Ewe, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024

This bold move by Japan would’ve been hard to imagine a decade ago, but as the China’s assertiveness grows, so has Japan’s effort to beef up its national defense. —Anthony Trotter, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2024

However, naturally, a lot needed to be changed or expanded on to craft an eight-episode series, and to that end, Schur was keen to beef up the actual crime Charles is investigating. —Lauren Huff, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2024

The episode finds Dwight looking for some muscle to beef up his security detail. —Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 13 Sep. 2024