Fortify

Definition

fortify / 'fↄ:tÇfaÇ / v ( pt, pp -fied ) ၁။ ~ sth (against sth/sb ) (က) ခံစစ္ျပင္သည္။ အခိုင္အမာျပဳသည္။ fortify a town against the enemy ❍ a fortified city. (ခ) ရဲေဆးတင္သည္။ They went into battle fortified by prayer. ❍ He fortified himself against the cold with a large glass of brandy. ၂။ ~ sth (with sth) (usu passive) အားျဖည့္သည္။ အာနိသင္ ျဖည့္သည္။ cereal fortified with extra vitamins ❍ fortified wine (ie wine strengthened with extra alcohol) such as port. ❏ fortification / fↄ:tÇfÇ'keÇʃn / n ၁။ [C usu pl ] ခံတပ္၊ ခံစစ္ေနရာစသည္။ impregnable fortifications. ၂။ [U] ခံစစ္လုပ္ငန္း။ ခံစစ္ျပင္ဆင္မႈ။ plans for the fortification of the city.

Examples

1. They resumed the search
2. fortified by a hearty breakfast.
3. The deal will help the Democrats to fortify their hold on Congress.
4. [fortify something with something] : All of our cereals are fortified with extra vitamins and minerals.