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  • So now they began to labour hard in fortifying the main entrance, and in remaking the road that led from it.  (source)
    fortifying = adding features to protect from enemies
  • I recognized the formulas—the oils and tinctures were to fortify the liver and kidneys, and the clay was a foot soak to draw toxins.†  (source)
  • "A king fortifies himself with a castle," observed the Count, "a gentleman with a desk."†  (source)
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  • Another king, if he had such a treasure, would keep it under guard in his most fortified hall.†  (source)
    fortified = to make stronger
  • THEY FOUND LEO AT THE TOP of the city fortifications.†  (source)
  • They are to raise a hundred bowmen each and fortify Moat Cailin.†  (source)
  • Escarpment, a vertical fortification, or else a steep cliff-face.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • The car was packed by six fifteen, whereupon Mom insisted that we eat breakfast with Dad, although I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.†  (source)
  • Democracy is favorable to the increase of the internal resources of the State; it tends to diffuse a moderate independence; it promotes the growth of public spirit, and fortifies the respect which is entertained for law in all classes of society; and these are advantages which only exercise an indirect influence over the relations which one people bears to another.†  (source)
  • "He was in an unfortified position, exposed from all sides," Ng says.†  (source)
    unfortified = not made stronger
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unfortified means not and reverses the meaning of fortified. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • "I'll take another glass of sherry, Ladislaw," he said, with an easy air, to Will, who was close behind him, and presently handed him the supposed fortifier.†  (source)
  • Fortified, they took the bus to the edge of the city.†  (source)
    Fortified = to make stronger
  • The castle's magical fortifications have been strengthened over the summer, we are protected in new and more powerful ways, but we must still guard scrupulously against carelessness on the part of any student or member of staff.†  (source)
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