re-enforce

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RE-ENFORCE, verb transitive [re and enforce.] To strengthen with new force, assistance or support, as to re-enforce an argument; but particularly, to strengthen an army or a fort with additional troops, or a navy with additional ships.
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