transitive. To fortify, strengthen, or protect (a place), esp. with a rampart. Also in extended use. In later use archaic.
| 单词 | θ161305 |
| 释义 | society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > protect or surround with rampart [verb (transitive)] (21) rampire1550 transitive. To fortify, strengthen, or protect (a place), esp. with a rampart. Also in extended use. In later use archaic. berampier1582 to surround with a rampart. rampart1585 transitive. To fortify or surround with a rampart. Also in extended use. Chiefly in past participle. mound1600 transitive. To enclose, bound, or fortify with a bank, embankment, etc. Also figurative. Now rare. circumvall1623 = circumvallate, v. circumvallate1823 transferred and figurative. Subcategories:— cut groove with pickaxe (1) — face with stone (2) — protect or surround with trenches (6) — provide with terreplein (1) — provide with counterscarp (1) — protect with breastwork (2) — protect with outwork (1) — countermine (1) |
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