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Adjective: fortified  'for-tu,fId
  1. Secured with bastions or fortifications
    - bastioned
     
  2. Having something added to increase the strength
    "fortified wine"
Verb: fortify  'for-tu,fI
  1. Make strong or stronger
    "This exercise will fortify your upper body";
    - strengthen, beef up
     
  2. Enclose by or as if by a fortification
    - fort
     
  3. Prepare oneself for a military confrontation
    "troops are fortifying on the Iraqi border";
    - arm, build up, gird
     
  4. (cooking) add nutrients to
    "fortified milk"
     
  5. (cooking) add alcohol to (beverages)
    "the punch is fortified!";
    - spike, lace

See also: protected, strong

Type of: add, alter, change, close in, enclose, inclose, modify, shut in

Antonym: demilitarise [Brit], weaken

Encyclopedia: Fortified

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