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fortify
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  • She needed a few more makeshift weapons, and a way to fortify the locks on her windows and doors.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Fortify the Institute?†  (source)
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  • Fortified, they took the bus to the edge of the city.†  (source)
  • Paul spent the night frantically helping to build fortifications — dirt walls and ditches that could protect them from musket fire.†  (source)
  • And so, as Jaimito snored away, Dede began devising a little exercise to distract her mind and fortify her spirit.†  (source)
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • "A king fortifies himself with a castle," observed the Count, "a gentleman with a desk."†  (source)
  • "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.
  • "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)
  • You might not know it, but his house is heavily fortified with magic.†  (source)
  • 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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