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/fˈɔrtɪfˌaɪ/ Listen

verb

Fortify v. t. (past & past part. fortified; pres. part. fortifying)

To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack. "Timidity was fortified by pride." "Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution."

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.

Fortify v. i. To raise defensive works.

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"Fortify" Quotes from Famous Books

... 25 Wherefore, the people of Nephi did fortify against them with their arms, and with all their might, trusting in the God and rock of their salvation; wherefore, they became as ...

— The Book Of Mormon - An Account Written By The Hand Of Mormon Upon Plates Taken - From The Plates Of Nephi • Anonymous

... would spend over "that truck of his" hours that might profitably (considering his talents) be employed in helping to fortify the camp against the Arctic winter, his companions felt it little ...

— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)

... thought Evan; "the fox will catch the wolf napping, and nail him before he can fortify ...

— The Diamond Coterie • Lawrence L. Lynch

... there was a semblance of excuse in the utter military inefficiency to which the policy of Jefferson and Madison had reduced the national government. It was powerless to give the several states the protection to which it was pledged by the Constitution. The citizens of New York had to fortify and defend their own harbor. The reproaches of New England on this score were seconded somewhat later by the outcries of Maryland; and if Virginia was silent under suffering, it was not because she lacked cause for complaint. It is to ...

— Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 - Volume 1 • Alfred Thayer Mahan

... His anxieties concerning her were deep indeed, his very solicitude impelling him toward the plan which he was eager to consummate. He was distracted by fears and forebodings of every kind of evil; he was striving to fortify his mind against the dire misgiving that the Confederacy was in a very bad way, and that a general breaking up might take place. Indeed his mental condition was not far removed from that of a man who dreads lest the hitherto immutable laws of nature are about to end in an inconceivable state of chaos. ...

— Miss Lou • E. P. Roe

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