Reinforced

reinforce (ˌriːɪnˈfɔːs)

—vb
1.	to give added strength or support to
2.	to give added emphasis to; stress, support, or increase: his rudeness reinforced my determination
3.	to give added support to (a military force) by providing more men, supplies, etc
4.	psychol to reward an action or response of (a human or animal) so that it becomes more likely to occur again

[C17: from obsolete renforce, from French renforcer; see re- + inforceenforce]

rein'forcement

—n

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Word Origin & History

reinforce

1600, originally in military sense, from re- "again" + enforce (cf. re-enforce).

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Medical Dictionary

reinforce re·in·force (rē'ĭn-fôrs')
v. re·in·forced, re·in·forc·ing, re·in·forc·es

To give more force or effectiveness to something; strengthen.
To reward an individual, especially an experimental subject, with a reinforcer subsequent to a desired response or performance.
To stimulate a response by means of a reinforcer.

Example sentences

In the middle it had a strong reinforced section with multiple u-shaped cutouts

that fit over the pipe that was the fulcrum.

Tax refunds and opportunistic fundraising further reinforced balance-sheets.

Females have thick padding on their reproductive tract that's reinforced with

strong, elastic connective tissue.

The surgery removed scar tissue and reinforced the tendon.

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"The secret affinity between gambling and the desert: the intensity of gambling reinforced by the presence of the desert all around the town. The air-conditioned freshness of the gaming rooms, as against the radiant heat outside. The challenge of all the artificial lights to the violence of the sun's rays. Night of gambling sunlit on all sides; the glittering darkness of these rooms in the middle of the desert. Gambling itself is a desert form, inhuman, uncultured, initiatory, a challenge to the natural economy of value, a crazed activity on the fringes of exchange. But it too has a strict limit and stops abruptly; its boundaries are exact, its passion knows no confusion. Neither the desert nor gambling are open areas; their spaces are finite and concentric, increasing in intensity toward the interior, toward a central point, be it the spirit of gambling or the heart of the desert—a privileged, immemorial space, where things lose their shadow, where money loses its value, and where the extreme rarity of traces of what signals to us there leads men to seek the instantaneity of wealth."

-Jean Baudrillard

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