beef up
[verb]
Synonyms: increase, aggrandize, augment, boost, enlarge, expand, extend, heighten, magnify, multiply

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beef something ↔ up phrasal verb informal (see also beef)
to improve something or make it more interesting, more important etc:
a beefed-up news story
We need to beef the campaign up.

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beef up
beef up (something)
to make something stronger or more effective.
The city is beefing up police patrols, putting more cops on the street where they can be seen.

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beef up something
beef up (something)
to make something stronger or more effective.
The city is beefing up police patrols, putting more cops on the street where they can be seen.

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beef up
to make something stronger
The police beefed up the security around the convention site.

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beef up something
to make something stronger
The police beefed up the security around the convention site.

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beef up
v., informal To make stronger by adding men or equipment; make more powerful; reinforce.
The general beefed up his army with more big guns and tanks.
The university beefed up the football coaching staff by adding several good men.

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