beefed-up

1. 1.

   made greater or stronger

   “beefed-up sales efforts”

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Questions about beefed-up

What does beefed-up mean?

beefed-up means "made greater or stronger".

How many syllables are in beefed-up?

beefed-up has 3 syllables and divides as bee-fe-d-up under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is beefed-up a common word?

beefed-up is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.