Usually means: Strengthen or enhance; make stronger.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. beef up: Merriam-Webster
  2. beef up: Vocabulary.com
  3. beef-up: Wordnik
  4. beef up: Wiktionary
  5. beef-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. beef-up, beef up: Dictionary.com
  7. beef up: Rhymezone
  8. beef up: FreeDictionary.org
  9. beef up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. beef up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. beef up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beef up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. beef (something) up: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. beef up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (beef up)

▸ verb:  (slang, transitive) To strengthen or reinforce; to add substance to.

Similar:
strengthen, fortify, bulk out, build, bolster, soup up, thicken, shore up, enforce, inbuild, more...

Types:
intensify, reinforce, strengthen, emphasize, heighten, more...

Phrases:
beef it up, more...

Adjectives:
elevate, erect, ascensive, arrect, riddled, stepped-up, plus, uprated, full, substrate, step-up

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Similar:
strengthen, fortify, bulk out, build, bolster, soup up, thicken, shore up, enforce, inbuild, more...

Types:
intensify, reinforce, strengthen, emphasize, heighten, more...

Phrases:
beef it up, more...

Adjectives:
elevate, erect, ascensive, arrect, riddled, stepped-up, plus, uprated, full, substrate, step-up



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