Sample Sentences forfortify (auto-selected)
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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
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They are to raise a hundred bowmen each and fortify Moat Cailin.† (source)
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Another two months to fortify and hide it from the prying eyes of aux patrols.† (source)
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She needed a few more makeshift weapons, and a way to fortify the locks on her windows and doors.† (source)
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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)
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Most passengers had fads; he was paid to fortify their self-esteem.† (source)
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Fortified, they took the bus to the edge of the city.† (source)
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Paul spent the night frantically helping to build fortifications — dirt walls and ditches that could protect them from musket fire.† (source)
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I endeavoured to crush these fears and to fortify myself for the trial which in a few months I resolved to undergo; and sometimes I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by reason, to ramble in the fields of Paradise, and dared to fancy amiable and lovely creatures sympathizing with my feelings and cheering my gloom; their angelic countenances breathed smiles of consolation.† (source)
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That's like a military fortification.† (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.
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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)
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"A king fortifies himself with a castle," observed the Count, "a gentleman with a desk."† (source)
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"He was in an unfortified position, exposed from all sides," Ng says.† (source)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.
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"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)
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Fortified by his good time at the Pickwells', Maniac returned to the McNabs'.† (source)
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They call him Saladin ... Mikhail stretched out on the bed, his back propped against the headboard, the gun at his side, and stared at the shadowy mass of his fortifications.† (source)
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