| 单词 | fortification |
| 释义 | fortification (once / 772 pages) n WORD FAMILY fortification: fortifications+/fort: forted, fortify, forting, forts/fortify: fortification, fortified, fortifies, fortifying USAGE EXAMPLESFortification adjustments undertaken by NGOs were necessitated by the international community’s inaction as the Syrian government targeted doctors. Time(Dec 14, 2016) Military historians suggest that the wall wasn’t especially well-calibrated—to either the contours of its place or the tactics of its time—as a fortification. The New Yorker(Dec 11, 2016) As part of that, the streets were designed to be wide enough to allow for tanks, and the buildings were intended to double as fortifications. Washington Post(Dec 01, 2016) 1n defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper munition Maginot Line a fortification built before World War II to protect France's eastern border; initially considered to be impregnable, it was easily overrun by the German army in 1940 Siegfried lineGerman fortifications facing the Maginot Line Balmoral Castlea castle in northeastern Scotland that is a private residence of the British sovereign bastion projecting part of a rampart or other fortification bunker, dugouta fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground castlea large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack defiladethe arrangement of defensive fortifications to protect against enemy fire entrenchment, intrenchmentan entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches escarp, escarpment, protective embankment, scarpa steep artificial slope in front of a fortification fieldworka temporary fortification built by troops in the field lunettetemporary fortification like a detached bastion palisadefortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground breastwork, parapetfortification consisting of a low wall redoubt(military) a temporary or supplementary fortification; typically square or polygonal without flanking defenses stockadefortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense fox hole, foxholea small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire funk holedugout as a place of safe retreat (when in a funk) machicolationa projecting parapet supported by corbels on a medieval castle; has openings through which stones or boiling water could be dropped on an enemy retrenchmententrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense defence, defense, defensive structure a structure used to defend against attack 2n the art or science of strengthening defenses Hyper art, artistry, prowess a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation 3n the addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food) Hyper enrichment act of making fuller or more meaningful or rewarding |
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