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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a device designed to provide additional strength;
- Example: "the cardboard backing was just a strengthener"
- Example: "he used gummed reinforcements to hold the page in his notebook"
[syn: strengthener, reinforcement]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Strengthener \Strength"en*er\, n.
   One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. --Sir W.
   Temple.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

strengthener
    n 1: a device designed to provide additional strength; "the
         cardboard backing was just a strengthener"; "he used gummed
         reinforcements to hold the page in his notebook" [syn:
         strengthener, reinforcement]