Meanings
adjectivefortresslike (comparative more fortresslike, superlative most fortresslike)
comparative more fortresslike · superlative most fortresslike
- Resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.
The move will transfer the facility’s more than 200 prisoners, including 50 deemed criminally insane, from a fortresslike building with bars on the windows and cement walls and ceilings into a unit of Manhattan Psychiatric Center, a civilian hospital close by on Wards Island.
2019 December 13, Annie Correal, “Why Workers Fear Moving 50 Criminally Insane Patients”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2020
Origin
- Englishfortress
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishfortresslike
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fortresslike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fortresslike
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Chicago
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