Dictionary Entry
fortify
fortify is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 15 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.
- 2transitive verb
To strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.
- 3intransitive verb
To raise defensive works.
- 4verb
make strong or stronger
"This exercise will strengthen your upper body"
"strengthen the relations between the two countries"
Synonyms
- 5verb
add alcohol to (beverages)
"the punch is spiked!"
- 6verb
add nutrients to
"fortified milk"
- 7verb
prepare oneself for a military confrontation
"The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"
"troops are building up on the Iraqi border"
- 8verb
enclose by or as if by a fortification
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