FORTIFY
\fˈɔːtɪfˌa͡ɪ], \fˈɔːtɪfˌaɪ], \f_ˈɔː_t_ɪ_f_ˌaɪ]\
Definitions of FORTIFY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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enclose by or as if by a fortification
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add nutrients to; "fortified milk"
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prepare oneself for a military confrontation; "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqui border"
By Princeton University
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To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.
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To strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.
By Oddity Software
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To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.
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To strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.
By Noah Webster.
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To strengthen by military works; make strong; encourage or confirm.
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To erect works of defense.
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Fortifying.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To strengthen against attack with forts, etc.: to invigorate: to confirm: to increase the alcoholic strength of by means of adventitious spirit; as, to fortify port-wine with brandy.
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FORTIFIER.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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