Term: strengthening: the act of increasing the strength of something
Candidate hypernym: increase: the act of increasing something → 1
Candidate hypernym: knightia: small genus of trees or shrubs of New Zealand and New Caledonia → 0
Candidate hypernym: strip: a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music → 0
Candidate hypernym: equine distemper: an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes → 0
Candidate hypernym: priestess: a woman priest → 0
Candidate hypernym: gram's method: a staining technique used to classify bacteria; bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution; after being decolorized with alcohol and treated with safranine and washed in water, those that retain the gentian violet are Gram-positive and those that do not retain it are Gram-negative → 0
Candidate hypernym: philosopher: a specialist in philosophy → 0
Candidate hypernym: muncher: a chewer who makes a munching noise → 0
Candidate hypernym: appaloosa: a hardy breed of saddle horse developed in western North America and characteristically having a spotted rump → 0
Candidate hypernym: intonation: the production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations → 0
Candidate hypernym: videodisk: a digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set → 0