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well-fortified
adjective
- (of a position, garrison, city, etc) having been made defensible
- (of a person) having strengthened oneself or been strengthened physically, mentally, or morally
the police were well fortified with steaming mugs of tea
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They were the first to throw Molotov coctails and stones at police and to mount real and well-fortified barricades.
It sent chunks of concrete and other debris flying into the street outside the well-fortified compound.
It was largest home around, and its inhabitants reportedly kept to themselves and kept the house incredibly well fortified.
It was so well fortified that the French boasted that even women could defend it against a large army.
The place was an important position, well fortified and containing, under ordinary circumstances, a population of ten thousand.
It is a well-fortified town, and is situated on the banks of a river of the same name, which are cultivated and fertile.
These forts were generally trading-houses, well fortified and garrisoned, but not governmental military posts.
Chapultepec was a strong, well-fortified and well-armed fort.
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