つよめる – Vocabulary details

つよめる

Verb (1-dan, transitive)

1. to strengthen; to emphasize; to emphasise

名な前まえを呼よばれて、店てん主しゅが僅わずかに警けい戒かいを強つよめた。Called by name, the shopkeeper grew slightly more wary.

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to raise one's voice; to lift one's voice; to speak emphatically

to put stress on a word

警けい戒かいをつよめております。

We are strengthening our vigilance.

名な前まえを呼よばれて、店てん主しゅが僅わずかに警けい戒かいをつよめた。

Called by name, the shopkeeper grew slightly more wary.

だからこそ、俺おれは一いっ層そう警けい戒かい心しんをつよめることにした。

That's exactly why I decided to be even more on my guard.

これは、あの殺さつ人じん的てきな公こう爵しゃくに復ふく讐しゅうしようという彼かれの願ねがいをつよめただけだ。

This only increased his desire to be revenged on the murderous duke.

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