beef up

Questions about beef up

What does beef up mean?

beef up means "make strong or stronger".

What is another word for beef up?

Close synonyms include strengthen, fortify. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beef up a common word?

beef up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.