REINFORCED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reinforced mean? 

• REINFORCED (adjective)
  The adjective REINFORCED has 2 senses:

1. given added strength or support

2. (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness

  Familiarity information: REINFORCED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REINFORCED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Given added strength or support

Synonyms:

reinforced; strengthened

Context example:

reinforced concrete contains steel bars or metal netting

Similar:

strong (having strength or power greater than average or expected)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness

Synonyms:

built; reinforced

Context example:

the built liquid detergents

Similar:

improved (made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially made ready for use or marketing)

 Context examples 

The researchers also confirmed that the amount of exercise WHO recommends for older adults was reinforced by the studies they examined.

(Aerobic Exercise May Mildly Delay, Slightly Improve Alzheimer's Symptoms, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The study reinforced this notion by testing the day/night cycles of mice under different feeding schedules.

(Eating at 'Wrong Time' Affects Body Weight, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

With each flyby, the data reinforced the idea that five windstorms were swirling in a pentagonal pattern around a central storm at the south pole and that the system seemed stable.

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)

This command was reinforced by a steaming kettle of water, and at sight of it the sailors scrambled out of the way.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Our numbers had been reinforced during the night by a fresh batch of natives from the caves, and we may have been four or five hundred strong when we made our advance.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The term refers particularly, to thermoplastic and thermosetting resins, poly-siloxanes, polymers associated with restorative materials; ionic polymers, silicones, polymethylmethacrylate, BIS-GMA, reinforced polymers, composites, metals, cements, dental porcelains, etc.

(Dental Material, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

There must have been more men in the conspiracy to murder the captain and mate, for by the sounds I knew that Leach and Johnson had been quickly reinforced by some of their mates.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)