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strengthner

strengthner is the obsolete form of strengthener.

Meaning of strengthener

Noun

strengthener (plural strengtheners)

  1. One who, or that which, gives or adds strength.
    • Garlick is of great Virtue in all Cholicks , a great Strengthener of the Stomach upon Decays of Appetite , or Indigestiona. 1700 (date written), William Temple, “Of Health and Long-life”, in Miscellanea. The Third Part. […], London: […] Jonathan Swift, […] Benjamin Tooke, […], published 1701, →OCLC, page 179

Forms of strengthner

pluralstrengthners

Questions about strengthner

What is strengthner the obsolete form of?
Strengthner is the obsolete form of strengthener.

Words near strengthner in the dictionary

  1. strengthily
  2. strengthing
  3. strengthless
  4. strengthlessly
  5. strengthlessness
  6. strengthner
  7. strengthners
  8. strengths
  9. strengthy
  10. Strensall
  11. Strensall with Towthorpe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: strengthner (page history and authors); strengthener (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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