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Noun fortification has 3 senses

• fortification(n = noun.artifact) munition - defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it; Array
has particulars: bastion, bunker, dugout, castle, defilade, entrenchment, intrenchment, escarp, escarpment, protective embankment, scarp, fieldwork, lunette, palisade, breastwork, parapet, redoubt, stockade, maginot line, siegfried line
is a kind of defence, defense, defensive structure
has parts: bulwark, rampart, wall
Derived form verb fortify₂

• fortification(n = noun.cognition) Array - the art or science of strengthening defenses; Array
is a kind of art, artistry, prowess
Derived forms verb fortify₁, verb fortify₃

• fortification(n = noun.act) Array - the addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food); Array
is a kind of enrichment
Derived forms verb fortify₁, verb fortify₅, verb fortify₄

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fortification

abatis, advanced work, affirmation, attestation, authentication, backing, backing up, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bearing out, bolstering, breastwork, bulwark, buttressing, case hardening, casemate, certification, cheval-de-frise, circumstantiation, circumvallation, confirmation, contravallation, corroboration, corroboratory evidence, counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, documentation, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, enrichment, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, glacis, hardening, invigoration, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, proof, proving, proving out, rampart, ratification, ravelin, redan, redoubt, refreshment, reinforcement, reinvigoration, restoration, restrengthening, revivification, sally port, scarp, sconce, stockade, strengthening, substantiation, support, supporting evidence, tempering, tenaille, undergirding, validation, vallation, vallum, verification, vitaminization, work

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fortification

Defense

N defense, protection, guard, ward, shielding, propugnation, preservation, guardianship, area defense, site defense, self-defense, self-preservation, resistance, safeguard, balistraria, bunker, screen, camouflage, fortification, munition, muniment, trench, foxhole, bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment, kila, dike, dyke, parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment, earth work, field- work, fence, wall dead wall, contravallation, paling, palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar, barrier, barricade, boom, portcullis, chevaux de frise, abatis, abattis, abbatis, vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp, escarp, counter-scarp, glacis, casemate, vallation, vanfos, buttress, abutment, shore, breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin, vauntmure, advance work, horn work, outwork, barbacan, barbican, redoubt, fort-elage, fort-alice, lines, loophole, machicolation, sally port, hold, stronghold, fastness, asylum, keep, donjon, dungeon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle, tower of strength, tower of strength, fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath, wooden walls, bulletproof vest, armored vest, buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail, brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume, morion, murrion, armet, cabaset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickelhaube, vambrace, shako, bearskin, panoply, truncheon, garrison, picket, piquet, defender, protector, guardian, bodyguard, champion, knight-errant, Paladin, propugner, bulletproof window, hardened site, defending, defensive, mural, armed, armed at all points, armed cap-a-pie, armed to the teeth, panoplied, iron-plated, ironclad, loopholed, castellated, machicolated, casemated, defended, proof against, armored, ballproof, bulletproof, hardened, defensively, on the defense, on the defensive, in defense, at bay, pro aris et focis, Int, no surrender!, defense not defiance, Dieu defend le droit, fidei defensor, defender of the faith.

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