beef up

phrasal verb

beefed up; beefing up; beefs up

informal

: to add weight, strength, or power to (something)

Security around the city will be beefed up during the event.

a politician looking to beef his image up

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Other states and countries are steadily beefing up their tax incentive programs. —

Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2024 Sensitive to this threat, Estonia and Latvia, which share a border with Russia, signed an agreement with Lithuania in January to beef up land borders with Russia and Belarus as part of the Baltic Defense Line. —

Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024 Fellows participate in writing workshops, career coaching events and work on real-world projects intended to beef up resumes. —

Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 11 Dec. 2024 To beef up these verbal threats, which the West has not put much stock in, on November 21, Russia fired a nuclear-capable missile at a military plant in Dnipro. —

Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for beef up