beef up
50 synonyms found
- aggravate
- augment
- blow up
- boost
- brace
- brace up
- buttress
- case harden
- complicate
- concentrate
- condense
- confirm
- consolidate
- deepen
- double
- enhance
- enlarge
- exacerbate
- expand
- extend
- fortify
- gird
- harden
- heat up
- hop up
- hot up
- invigorate
- jazz up
- key up
- make complex
- multiply
- prop
- ramify
- redouble
- refresh
- reinforce
- reinvigorate
- restrengthen
- sharpen
- shore up
- soup up
- steel
- step up
- stiffen
- strengthen
- temper
- toughen
- triple
- undergird
- whet
Definition
"let's beef up the hinge, in case anybody leans on the door."