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Meaning fortify meaning

What does fortify mean?
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fortify Verb

— If you fortify something, you strengthen it with tough materials. The castle was fortified with an extra layer of stone.

fortify

— verb (= strengthen) make strong or stronger This exercise will strengthen your upper body strengthen the relations between the two countries — verb add nutrients to fortified milk — verb enclose by or as if by a fortification — verb (= build up, gird) prepare oneself for a military confrontation The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East troops are building up on the Iraqi border — verb (= spike) add alcohol to (beverages) the punch is spiked!

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fortify English » English

strengthen reinforce toughen support barricade spike beef up make strong lace harden gird fort entrench embattle corroborate confirm build up arm tighten temper invigorate intensify garrison defend amplify wall vouch vitaminize vitaminise verify validate underpin transistorize transistorise tone up substantiate strictly stockade severely set in order secure rigidly refresh reconfirm rebuild ratify protect promote play officialise

Topics fortify topics

What do people use fortify to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Protect
Social behavior Law Trial

Defend against accusation
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Defend
Social behavior Conflict War Military organization

Fort

Conjugation fortify conjugation

How do you conjugate fortify?

fortify · verb

Examples fortify examples

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There remain and fortify it strongly against the French.
How about a whisky to fortify yourself against the fog?
Fortify our border positions, and if Inui refuses to move his men.
Hereafter, I quarter at North Garrison here, secretly fortify our border, and attack when opportunity permits.
Good idea. Let us fortify ourselves in evil.
It may fortify your courage to know. that Pompey is at this moment encamped some 20 miles to the west of us. and that the army of Lucullus approaches from the south. by forced night march.
The council made a secret decision to fortify the isthmus of Corinth, and not to go beyond it.
Your Majesty, please accept our modest gift. We are only too happy if we can fortify you.
Our ancestors came from central Asia found this strategic position and chose to fortify it.
If I can't fortify a city with rivers on two sides of it. I should be broken to the ranks.
In 1854, the United States Army began to fortify Alcatraz.
Not allowing the enemy to fortify their positions, nor to dig trenches.
I fortify Paris.
First and foremost. Farley Flavors' fabulous fast foods. feed and fortify families for a fabulous future.
You'll need something to fortify you.
They help to fortify animals and people.
Let us fortify ourselves in evil.
I fortify Paris. I disengage from Austria and retreat to Italy.
Well, the last wall we built, couldn't fortify it so we had to be real careful about hiding it.
But if we also fortify the biosphere.
But we need to fortify the structure.
We must fortify the barrier and the towers, and dig a moat.
Would you like mead to fortify yourself for battle?
Fall back, pull my forces out of Cardassian space fortify the Klingon Empire and prepare for a fight to the death.
Crushed rama leaf and katyllian clove. It helps fortify the cellular membranes.
There remain, and fortify it strongly 'gainst the French.
Should we arrest them now or let them fortify themselves first?
Let them fortify themselves.
An injection of it might fortify the jejune concoction which seems to run through the veins of the Woosters these days.
But if we also fortify the biosphere's structural integrity at the same time.
We should be able to change the course of the core fragment but we'll also need to fortify the structure and we're going to need help to do it.
To fortify you.
It helps fortify the cellular membranes.
We just need to fortify the covers.
Fortify the palace guard.

News and current affairs

And Premier Li Keqiang's visit last May followed a deep PLA incursion into India's Ladakh region, seemingly intended to convey China's anger over India's belated efforts to fortify its border defenses.
In this scenario, rather than stimulating domestic demand, they would fortify their defenses, positioning themselves for a long and stormy winter for the global economy.
The second possibility is a world in which strong central governments use big data to fortify their control.
Assad must maintain control over these areas to fortify his position in any political negotiations and eventual settlement, including a potential partition.
Trump plays to America's persistent veins of racism and nativism: he vows somehow to round up and deport some 11 million undocumented aliens and fortify America's border with Mexico by building a wall - paid for by Mexico.
For this reason, too, it is our responsibility to fortify the US-Japan alliance.

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