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fortified

[fawr-tuh-fahy]

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verb (used with object)

to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.

to furnish with a means of resisting force or standing strain or wear: to fortify cotton with nylon.

to make strong; impart strength or vigor to: to fortify oneself with a good breakfast.

to increase the effectiveness of, as by additional ingredients: to fortify a diet with vitamins; to fortify a lotion with lanolin.

to strengthen mentally or morally: to be fortified by religious faith.

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to confirm or corroborate: to fortify an accusation with facts.

Nutrition. to add one or more ingredients to (a food) to increase its nutritional content.

to add alcohol to (wine or the like).

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verb (used without object)

to set up defensive works; erect fortifications.

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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English fortifien < Middle French fortifier < Late Latin fortificāre, equivalent to Latin forti(s) strong + -ficāre -fy

Related forms

for·ti·fi·a·ble, adjective

for·ti·fi·er, noun

for·ti·fy·ing·ly, adverb

non·for·ti·fi·a·ble, adjective

non·for·ti·fy·ing, adjective

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re·for·ti·fy, verb (used with object), -fied, -fy·ing.

un·der·for·ti·fy, verb (used with object), -fied, -fy·ing.

un·for·ti·fi·a·ble, adjective

un·for·ti·fied, adjective

well-for·ti·fied, adjective

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Synonyms
3. strengthen, reinforce. 5. hearten, embolden.

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Suburban fortified developments are also proliferating.

Google on the other hand is a large, well fortified target, that repels near constant attacks successfully.

The others were fed an ordinary diet, not fortified with microbes.

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Suburban fortified developments are also proliferating.

Google on the other hand is a large, well fortified target, that repels near constant attacks successfully.

The others were fed an ordinary diet, not fortified with microbes.

Fortified breads and cereals, as well as yeast, include this vitamin.

Any attack on a well fortified facility would be impossible.

These are the lobster men, fortified with coffee and bacon, getting ready to haul their traps.

Dried pasta is simple to prepare, inexpensive, and often fortified with folic acid and other nutritious ingredients.

Here's how a crack team of commandos might free a group of two hostages held by armed men in a fortified desert compound.

Breads and cereals are often fortified with riboflavin.

These included a complex network of fortified underground bunkers.

In world capitals, leaders fortified their security and curtailed public appearances.

Fortified kids foods are often still healthfully challenged.

The fortified wine shares two vital adjectives with the campfire treat: dark and sweet.

Tao opened his camp at the edge of the city in a fortified military compound.

Fortified means the vitamin has been added to the food.

Grozny has been transformed: ruins cleared away, bullet-ridden facades covered with plastic, fortified checkpoints gone.

Close-up showing the castle walls and towers and a fortified wall.

It is found in animal liver, whole milk, and some fortified foods.

Many of the old heavily fortified bases have been demolished, and homes built where they once stood.

The wine proposal is fortified with worthy sentiment.

Less cheap grain, more fortified and biofortified foods.

Now it has to be bulked upDozens of brands of fortified water are appearing on grocers' shelves, attracting health.

In world capitals, leaders fortified their security and curtailed.

Only he's well protected, impervious to your advances, hidden deep inside his fortified bunker.

And certain bugs are fortified with fats and vitamins that could help fend of malnutrition and starvation.

It's a game about brutal violence where you can slip in and out of a fortified barracks with nobody ever knowing you were there.

Dozens of brands of fortified water are appearing on grocers' shelves, attracting health-conscious.

Fortified by the protein-rich seeds, they multiply rapidly.

The utility of the fortified complex, however, depends on more than a single high-profile case.

Especially countries where you don't have to live behind fortified walls and travel with bodyguards.

Some of these sites have defensive characteristics and appear to have been fortified in antiquity.

Over the decades, they've tried everything from fortified sandbars to mammoth cruise ships.

Goodbar and the nutritionally fortified chocolate bars first.

Many foods are now fortified with folic acid to help prevent these kinds of serious birth defects.

On those occasions when a fabulous budget is fortified by.

On those occasions when a fabulous budget is fortified by genuine skill and.

Good sources of calcium include milk, cheese, yogurt and fortified juices.

Mossadegh's home had been fortified with machine-gun nests on the roof and a high defensive wall outside his bedroom window.

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Word Origin & History

fortify

mid-15c., "provide (a town) with walls and defenses," from M.Fr. fortifier, from L.L. fortificare, from L. fortis "strong" (see fort) + facere "to make" (see factitious). Sense of "to strengthen mentally or morally" is from late 15c. Meaning

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"add liquor or alcohol" is from 1880. Related: Fortified; fortifying.

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