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10 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb make strong or stronger
verb gain strength
verb give a healthy elasticity to
originFrom rare Middle English strengthenen (14th c.), from earlier strengthen (12th c.), where -en is the infinitive ending. Probably the original form was reinterpreted as strength + -en around the time when the infinitive ending was being apocopated in late Middle English.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- greenths 12
- strength 12
- greenth 11
- tethers 10
- henges 10
- thegns 10
- ethers 9
- nether 9
- tenths 9
- tether 9
- theres 9
- threes 9