Beef up
Beef up verb - To increase the ability of (as a muscle) to exert physical force.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- In this case, artificially lengthening the road allows the grade to be less steep: it's rise-over-run, and rise is fixed, so beef up "run".
Source: Space-Filling Path
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