See reinforce in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "reinforce",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "reinforces",
"tags": [
"third-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "reinforced",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "reinforced",
"tags": [
"past",
"participle"
]
},
{
"form": "reinforcing",
"tags": [
"present",
"participle"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "reinforc",
"2": "e"
},
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "weaken"
}
],
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Recent mistakes only reinforce the view that nobody cares."
},
{
"text": "Hitting a child can reinforce his tendency to use violence."
},
{
"text": "This meeting has helped to further reinforce the links between the colleges."
},
{
"text": "The steel is used to reinforce the building's walls."
},
{
"text": "The extra men will reinforce the army in Iraq."
}
],
"glosses": [
"If you reinforce something, you make it stronger."
],
"id": "simple-reinforce-en-verb-Pg8L1we7",
"raw_tags": [
"transitive"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "emphasise"
},
{
"word": "emphasize"
},
{
"word": "stress"
},
{
"word": "highlight"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌriː.ɪnˈfɔːs/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌri.ɪnˈfɔrs/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌriː.ɪnˈfoːs/",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-reinforce.ogg",
"raw_tags": [
"Audio"
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "reinforce"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "reinforce",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "reinforces",
"tags": [
"third-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "reinforced",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "reinforced",
"tags": [
"past",
"participle"
]
},
{
"form": "reinforcing",
"tags": [
"present",
"participle"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "reinforc",
"2": "e"
},
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "weaken"
}
],
"categories": [
"Transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Recent mistakes only reinforce the view that nobody cares."
},
{
"text": "Hitting a child can reinforce his tendency to use violence."
},
{
"text": "This meeting has helped to further reinforce the links between the colleges."
},
{
"text": "The steel is used to reinforce the building's walls."
},
{
"text": "The extra men will reinforce the army in Iraq."
}
],
"glosses": [
"If you reinforce something, you make it stronger."
],
"raw_tags": [
"transitive"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "emphasise"
},
{
"word": "emphasize"
},
{
"word": "stress"
},
{
"word": "highlight"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌriː.ɪnˈfɔːs/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌri.ɪnˈfɔrs/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌriː.ɪnˈfoːs/",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-reinforce.ogg",
"raw_tags": [
"Audio"
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "reinforce"
}
Download raw JSONL data for reinforce meaning in English (1.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-15 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.