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(obsolete, rare) A heaping up; accumulation
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(obsolete) A reinforcement; a strengthening.
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Obsolete form of afforcement. [(obsolete) A reinforcement; a strengthening.]
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(obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.
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(colloquial, usually with up) To amplify.
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(transitive) To improve.
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(transitive, often figuratively) To brace, reinforce, secure, or support.
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Something that helps, or adds power or effectiveness; assistance.
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(intransitive, idiomatic) To become more muscular.
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To close up by building.
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(finance) In derivatives trading, an options spread position having features of both a calendar spread and a vertical spread. It is established by simultaneously buying and selling equal amount of option contracts of the same type (call or put) but with different strike prices and expiration dates.
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(automotive) Reducing engine's capacity at same power or increasing engine's power without increasing capacity
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(transitive) To confer honor or nobility on (someone).
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(transitive, rare) To prop up or support, as with a bolster; shore up
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(obsolete) To place in ranks or in order.
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(computing, electronics) The degree to which something fans out, or splits into separate sections.
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(transitive, idiomatic) To inform somebody, especially to supply someone missing or missed information.
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(transitive, obsolete) To fill up; to make full.
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Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.
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(chiefly Britain, often plural) A removable item in a house or other building, which can be taken with one when one moves out, such as a moveable piece of furniture, a carpet, picture, etc.; US furnishing; compare fixture.
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(informal, transitive, intransitive) To provide (someone) with something; to furnish.
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(transitive) To increase.
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(transitive) To check the size of a gap.
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(intransitive, literally) To improve.
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(transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
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(transitive) To adorn with a crest.
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(transitive) To put heart into; make hearty.
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Extent or scope; e.g. breadth, width or amplitude.
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(transitive, idiomatic) To exert considerable effort to change (someone or something) into a desired state.
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(obsolete, transitive) To fortify, strengthen.
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(transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To make stronger or more powerful.
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(transitive, archaic) To furnish anew; refurnish.
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(formal, rare, transitive) To make level.
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(transitive) To build more or better than.
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(transitive, printing) To put an overlay on.
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To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
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(often followed by 'up') To increase in magnitude.
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A mechanism that propels something.
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(transitive) To motivate, encourage or mentally (emotionally) prepare.
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(US, transitive) To rear, bring up, raise.
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(transitive, obsolete) Raise (a person’s) spirits or lighten (his) mood; relieve (someone of a mental or emotional burden).
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(countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
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The act by which something or someone is retained; a retention.
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(transitive, intransitive, informal, dated) To revive one's knowledge of (something); to renew (a skill).
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(transitive) To climb to the top of.
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(business) A startup in the growth phase.
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(informal, transitive) To modify the engine of (a motor vehicle) to give a higher performance than the specifications.
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(transitive) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
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(business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
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The process of becoming steeper.
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(transitive) To raise upon stilts, or as if upon stilts.
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To place under; to insert.
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(transitive) To make faster or more powerful.
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To cause to give a higher tone or sound; to give a higher tone to; to make more intense; to heighten; to strengthen.
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(transitive) To train or educate.
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To lend moral support to.
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(intransitive) To lie in a position directly beneath something.
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To draw a line underneath something, especially to add emphasis; to underscore
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Obsolete form of underlie. [(intransitive) To lie in a position directly beneath something.]
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(transitive, figuratively) To give support to; to corroborate.
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To underline; to mark a line beneath text.
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(transitive) To set under or beneath.
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One who, or that which, undersets or supports; a prop; a support; a pedestal.
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The process of building something up; gradual development or accumulation.
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A person or organisation that upfits or upgrades something.
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One who, or that which, uplifts.
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(obsolete, Christianity) The Resurrection.
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The act by which something is upscaled; an increase in size or numbers.
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(intransitive) To acquire such additional skills.
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(intransitive) To prepare for an activity by carrying out a practice or preparation routine.
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Alternative spelling of warm-up [The act of exercising or stretching in preparation for strenuous activity]
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(transitive) To strengthen a part one’s body by exercise.
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(figuratively) A big increase.
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