- present participle of fortify.
fortifying
Example Sentences
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It is primarily tasked with repairing and fortifying the city’s more than 210,000 streetlamps — a frequent target of copper wire thieves — and maintaining its network of electrical vehicle charging stations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
There are limits to physically fortifying the cables.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Iran has been fortifying an underground complex near one of its nuclear facilities, according to analysis of new satellite images.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
He was speaking to the fortifying feeling of confidence and control that comes from knowing why we use the words that we do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
The forest itself, ten miles across, was a tangled thicket of trees and thorny underbrush honeycombed with German tunnels, concrete dugouts, and machine-gun nests that the Germans had spent four years fortifying.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
