BEEFED (UP) Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

beefed (up)

verb

past tense of beef (up)

as in strengthened

to increase the ability of (as a muscle) to exert physical force beefed up the walls with iron bars

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as in intensified

to make markedly greater in measure or degree will beef up security for the next few days while the president is in town

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Genevieve strengthened into a major hurricane in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday and is expected to intensify well southwest of Mexico but stay far out to sea on a course roughly parallel to the coast.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 July 2026
Athens and Jerusalem have steadily strengthened security ties amid evolving geopolitical challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 July 2026

Definition of strengthened

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Its arrival has intensified discussions over how the United States should respond to increasingly capable Chinese AI systems.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026
And that uncertainty has ballooned into a crisis of its own, which has only intensified after a rapid series of announcements from the Food and Drug Administration.

— Allie Canal, NBC news, 24 July 2026

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In the meantime, the less polished but battle-hardened Ethereum will emerge yet again as the more sensible software layer to power the next era of financial innovation.

— Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 27 July 2026
As many Americans have soured on the country in the wake of its brutal campaign in Gaza, Maher’s views have only hardened.

— Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 23 July 2026

Definition of hardened

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Ever since Anthropic announced Mythos had discovered thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities in major operating systems and web browsers in April, anxieties over the dangers of next-generation AI models have been heightened.

— Tim Keary, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
The severe shortage has heightened the visibility of the crisis across the Bay Area, helping fuel a political push in recent years to direct millions of public dollars toward adding thousands of new shelter beds.

— Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 23 July 2026

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