🇬🇧 Fortification meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Fortification is when you add extra protection, strength, or defenses to something so it’s harder to break, hurt, or attack—like putting big walls around a castle, extra locks on a door, or more cushions around your pillow fortress so it survives a sibling invasion.

The sandcastle needed serious fortification, so we added a moat, twelve shells, and one very confused crab as security guard.

We tried fortification of the cookie jar by hiding it, but Dad’s cookie radar easily broke through our defenses.

Our treehouse fortification used rope, a fake alligator, and a sign that said, “Beware of Invisible Dragons.”

The chocolate stash needed serious fortification, so I hid it inside an empty broccoli bag—no one ever looked there.

The Great Wall of China is one of the biggest fortification projects in history—it’s so long that if you walked its whole length, your feet would ask for their own little fortress of bandages.

She piled sandbags as the first fortification at the door. Each bag became a small fortification; a neighbor added a second fortification at the window and then a final fortification along the porch. The child watched, breath held, as the sea rose. Their fragile fortification held, and they fell into trembling, grateful laughter.

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