bastioned

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adjective

Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectivebastioned (not comparable)
  1. not comparableFurnished with a bastion; having bastions.

    To the North there were low pale-colored hills, in places bastioned with rock.

    1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 5, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998
    1 more example

    As he walked stiffly aslant against the booming northern wind, he tried to marshal his thoughts, tried to dovetail for himself a picture of what had happened behind the grim, bastioned walls of the lamasery and of what was going to happen […]

    1919, Achmed Abdullah, chapter IV, in Fear and Other Stories
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of bastion

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivesecured with bastions or fortifications

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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