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fort up

fort up verb: to fortify (a place); to convert into a fort.

Verb

fort up (third-person singular simple present forts up, present participle forting up, simple past and past participle forted up)

  1. (informal, transitive) To fortify (a place); to convert into a fort.
    • They had forted up their house, cutting the bottom-land timbers, lopping off their limbs, and driving the tree trunks into the ground topwise, to make a stockade big enough to hold them and some neighbors — the ones willing to stay there.2006, David Taylor, Pride of Place: A Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing, page 55

Forms of fort up

third-person singular presentforts up
present participleforting up
past participleforted up
pastforted up

Questions about fort up

What does fort up mean?
Fort up means to fortify (a place); to convert into a fort.
What part of speech is fort up?
Fort up is a verb.
What is the past tense of fort up?
The past tense of fort up is forted up.

Words near fort up in the dictionary

  1. Fort Smith
  2. Fort St. John
  3. Fort Stockton
  4. Fort Sumner
  5. Fort Sumter
  6. fort up
  7. Fort Valley
  8. Fort Victoria
  9. Fort Walton Beach
  10. Fort Washington
  11. Fort Wayne

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