Found 4 items, similar to Fortify.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: fortify
membentengi
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: fortify
membentengi, memperkuat, mengukuhkan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: fortify
fortify
v 1: make strong or stronger;
“This exercise will strengthen your
upper body”;
“strenghten the relations between the two
countries” [syn:
strengthen,
beef up] [ant:
weaken]
2: enclose by or as if by a fortification [syn:
fort]
3: 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” [syn:
arm,
build up,
gird] [ant:
disarm]
4: add nutrients to;
“fortified milk”
5: add alcohol beverages [syn:
spike,
lace]
[also:
fortified]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Fortify
Fortify
\For"ti*fy\, v. i.
To raise defensive works. --Milton.
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Fortify
\For"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Fortified; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Fortifying.] [F. fortifier, L. fortificare; fortis
strong + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See
Fort, and
-fy.]
1. To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish
with power to resist attack.
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Timidity was fortified by pride. --Gibbon.
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Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to
fortify his resolution. --Sir W.
Scott.
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2. 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.
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