fortify
verb (used with object)
to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.
refortify
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a word derived from
fortify.
Example Sentences
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If we wish to restore the healthy exchange of ideas, we need to refortify the marketplace.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2025
Not willing to tell her friends what's going on, throughout the night she sneaks off to her host's bathroom to refortify her toilet paper shield.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2022
Like Valletta itself, this gem was built by the knights in the late 1500s as the island sought to refortify itself after the siege’s destruction.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2017
Now, at the start of a new summer, they said they hoped the season would refortify them.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2015
He had habituated himself to a belief in the power of words, and every time he uttered them to us he seemed to refortify himself in his belief in their power.
From Jailed for Freedom by Doris Stevens
