well-fortified
Britishadjective
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(of a position, garrison, city, etc) having been made defensible
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(of a person) having strengthened oneself or been strengthened physically, mentally, or morally
the police were well fortified with steaming mugs of tea
Example Sentences
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Ahmed said the Wagner men, who spoke through an interpreter, then took him to a well-fortified Malian military base, and put him in a hangar.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
While the English took all the rest of Normandy, they never took this well-fortified island.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2016
The fund-raising, the demands of campaigning and organizing, the constant and irritating exposure and the prospect of running against a well-fortified opponent who has a huge head start.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2015
It didn’t take long to debunk the initial theory that this was a group of suicidal braves that had attacked a well-fortified village.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 9, 2015
No one will therefore wish to dispute his well-fortified statement that in such and such an instance an unseemly incident occurred.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
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