Word Meanings - FORTIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack. Timidity was fortified by pride. Gibbon. Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution. Sir W. Scott. 2. To strengthen

Additional info about word: FORTIFY

1. To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack. Timidity was fortified by pride. Gibbon. Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution. Sir W. Scott. 2. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FORTIFY)

• Corroborate
• Strengthen
• confirm
• fortify
• support
• Protect
• Defend
• guard
• shield
• preserve
• cover
• secure
• save
• vindicate
• Confirm
• establish
• fix
• corroborate
• invigorate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FORTIFY)

• Expose
• reveal
• betray
• exhibit
• produce
• mis-suffice
• Loosen
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free
• Drop
• abandon
• discontinue
• oppose
• discourage
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress

Related words: (words related to FORTIFY)

• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• GUARDER
  One who guards.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• GUARDANT
  See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• REINVIGORATE
  To invigorate anew.
• COUNTERGUARD
  A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
• OVERTHWARTLY
  In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.