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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Battery life has been beefed up significantly from 7 days to 30.
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Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2025
To run it all, Positive Grid has beefed up the computational power of the Spark series.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2025
However, MongoDB is beefing up hiring and going after deals with larger companies.
—Samantha Subin, CNBC, 6 Mar. 2025
Tuesday's vote at the iPhone maker's annual meeting was seen as a test of shareholder views on DEI programs, which many companies added or beefed up starting in 2020 amid the Black Lives Matter movement.
—Susan Heavey and Aditya Soni, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
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Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2025
To run it all, Positive Grid has beefed up the computational power of the Spark series.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2025
However, MongoDB is beefing up hiring and going after deals with larger companies.
—Samantha Subin, CNBC, 6 Mar. 2025
Tuesday's vote at the iPhone maker's annual meeting was seen as a test of shareholder views on DEI programs, which many companies added or beefed up starting in 2020 amid the Black Lives Matter movement.
—Susan Heavey and Aditya Soni, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
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“Beef up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beef%20up. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.
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