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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With more housing near transit comes less reliance on cars, more pedestrian-friendly development, cleaner air and strengthened commercial corridors.

— Bennett Lawson, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026
The programme’s delivery schedule was strengthened earlier this year through a contractual amendment between Fincantieri and OCCAR.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of strengthened

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Regulatory activity around the project has intensified rapidly in recent weeks.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
While the aerial war has intensified in recent months, fighting along the roughly 1,250-kilometer front line snaking through northern, eastern and southern Ukraine has been virtually deadlocked.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of intensified

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But the conflict heightened last week, with insults flying back and forth.

— Marshall Cohen, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026
Recent significant coastal impacts, such as erosion, along parts of the West Coast have also heightened attention to the potential effects of changing ocean conditions.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of heightened

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The destroyer has enhanced electrical power distribution and additional cooling capacity to support its advanced systems.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
If the liminal atmosphere in Backrooms, enhanced by the cinematography of Jeremy Cox, gave you a sense of dread, his camera work on Concrete Turned to Sand will take you into a very different space – oyster farms in British Columbia, Canada.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of enhanced

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The pandemic, which emptied offices in 2020, deepened WeWork’s troubles.

— Muskaan Arshad, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
That has made imports more expensive and deepened a longstanding cost of living crisis that sparked nationwide protests last December that the security forces crushed with deadly force.

— Erika Solomon, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026

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