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Meanings of fortified in English

Secured with bastions or fortifications.

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Examples for "bastioned"
Examples for "bastioned"
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To the North there were low pale-colored hills, in places bastioned with rock.
The silver chair
2
She could no more move than the bastioned wall behind her.
The Maid of the Whispering Hills
3
To the left was a flat-topped mesa eroded to fantastic mockery of some bastioned fort.
Mavericks
4
Toward the Morro is a bastioned face protected by a deep ditch, sally port, and drawbridge.
The Story of the Philippines / Natural Riches, Industrial Resour...
5
El Principe, a stone-bastioned redoubt west of Havana.
The Story of the Philippines / Natural Riches, Industrial Resour...
Usage of fortified in English
1
However, fortified rice was found to be highly acceptable in both countries.
Pubmed
2
The natives were at peace; food was abundant; the station securely fortified.
Ismailia
3
Jelaudin's army had fortified a position, just as a city or town.
Genghis: bones of the hills: a novel
4
This fortified her; this was her stronghold; this united her to God.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07: Great Women
5
This effectually fortified and barricaded the weak place in the stockade fence.
Betty Zane
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During that visit, rockets fell on Baghdad's fortified Green Zone government district.
Reuters
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Another arrives from Philadelphia, equally fortified in local heraldries unknown in Boston.
Oldport Days
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It might be fortified by abuse; and they had already abused it.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part D. / From...
9
Dec. 28-NewParis defenses are completed; the Rhine is being additionally fortified.
The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, ...
10
Early in the afternoon they started off, well fortified against the cold.
The Girl Scouts' Good Turn
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It fortified Saergaeth's position as much as it hamstrung his further progress.
The last page
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General Putnam had fortified a hill north of the city of Boston.
George Washington
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Possibly these disappeared during the Civil War when the town was fortified.
Wanderings in Wessex / An Exploration of the Southern Realm from...
14
Vitamin D is found in fortified dairy products and in fish oils.
Jamaica Observer
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I knew but one homestead in that direction-thefortified house of Anlaf.
Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune / A Tale o...
16
Part of the first floor of the original fortified Crusader-era monastery remains.
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United Kingdom
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