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fortressing

fortressing is the present participle and gerund of fortress.

Meaning of fortress

Verb

fortress (third-person singular simple present fortresses, present participle fortressing, simple past and past participle fortressed)

  1. (transitive) To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard, to fortify.
    • Honour and Beautie in the owners armes, / Are weaklie fortreſt from a world of harmes.1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC

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Questions about fortressing

What is fortressing the present participle and gerund of?
Fortressing is the present participle and gerund of fortress.

Words near fortressing in the dictionary

  1. Fortress Europe
  2. Fortress Hill
  3. fortresse
  4. fortressed
  5. fortresses
  6. fortressing
  7. fortresslike
  8. Fortriu
  9. Fortrose
  10. forts
  11. Fortson

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