Fasten vs Strengthen - What's the difference?
fasten | strengthen |
To attach or connect in a secure manner.
* Jonathan Swift
To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
* Shakespeare
(lb) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify; to reinforce.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest,/ With powerful policy strengthen themselves.
*1851 , Anonymous,
*:A little hardship, and a little struggling with the rougher elements of life, will perchance but strengthen and increase his courage, and prepare him for the conflicts and struggles of after years.
(lb) To animate; to give moral strength to; to encourage; to fix in resolution; to hearten.
*(Bible), (w) iii. 28
*:Charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him.
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*:"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.."
(lb) To augment; to improve; to intensify.
(lb) To grow strong or stronger.
As a noun fasten
is .As a verb strengthen is
(lb) to make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify; to reinforce.fasten
English
Verb
(en verb)- The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.
- Fasten your seatbelts!
- Can you fasten these boards together with some nails?
- The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.
- to fasten a blow
- if I can fasten but one cup upon him
Anagrams
* * English ergative verbs ----strengthen
English
Verb
(en verb)Arthur Hamilton, and His Dog