semifortified

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adjective

Partially or somewhat fortified.

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Meanings

adjectivesemifortified (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePartially or somewhat fortified.

    We were walking on grass now, and I saw that the tent-cathedral had been pitched on a champian surrounded by semifortified houses; its insubstantial belfries looked down upon their parapets.

    1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIX, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 170

Origin

From semi- + fortified.

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APA

semifortified. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semifortified

MLA

“semifortified.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semifortified. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “semifortified,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semifortified.

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