Fire
Fire verb - To give life, vigor, or spirit to.
Usage example: a school outing to the natural history museum fired his imagination, and he grew up to become an eminent paleontologist
Strengthen and fire are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Strengthen" instead a verb "Fire".
Strengthen
Strengthen verb - To increase the ability of (as a muscle) to exert physical force.
Fire and strengthen are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fire" instead a verb "Strengthen".
Nearby Words: strength, strengthening
Both words in one sentence
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She instilled such Tough Love to strengthen the student she chose to be her successor that he thought he was The Unfavourite and when trying to runaway accidentally set up the fire that destroyed their dojo and killed Sayuri when she went back in to save him.
Source: Manga / Kurogane 2011 -
Yang from RWBY wields a set of arm-mounted shotgauntlets that fire shells full of "burn dust" and use recoil to strengthen punches.
Source: Arm Cannon - In Magic Knight Rayearth, Ascot takes out Hikaru and Fuu at the Water Shrine when he summons a fire beast—not only will Hikaru's magic strengthen it, Fuu's will as well because it's wind-based and you do not want to add oxygen to a fire.
Source: Worf Had the Flu
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