Fortification

n.	1.	The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.
	2.	That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle. Fortification agate Scotch pebble.

Noun	1.	fortification - defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it Synonyms: munition
	2.	fortification - the art or science of strengthening defenses
	3.	fortification - the addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food)

abatis, advanced work, affirmation, attestation, authentication, backing, backing up, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bearing out, bolstering, breastwork, bulwark, buttressing, case hardening, casemate, certification, cheval-de-frise, circumstantiation, circumvallation, confirmation, contravallation, corroboration, corroboratory evidence, counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, documentation, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, enrichment, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, glacis, hardening, invigoration, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, proof, proving, proving out, rampart, ratification, ravelin, redan, redoubt, refreshment, reinforcement, reinvigoration, restoration, restrengthening, revivification, sally port, scarp, sconce, stockade, strengthening, substantiation, support, supporting evidence, tempering, tenaille, undergirding, validation, vallation, vallum, verification, vitaminization, work

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