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garrisoned

garrisoned is the simple past and past participle of garrison.

Meaning of garrison

Verb

garrison (third-person singular simple present garrisons, present participle garrisoning, simple past and past participle garrisoned)

  1. To assign troops to a military post.
    • Nor was he content with thus strongly garrisoning the fort, but he likewise added exceedingly to its strength by furnishing it with a formidable battery of quaker guns—rearing a stupendous flag-staff in the centre which overtopped the whole city—and moreover by building a great windmill on one of...1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], chapter III, in A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume I, New York, N.Y....
  2. To convert into a military fort.
  3. To occupy with troops.
    • 'Establishing a land bridge through Mariupol to Crimea would take tens of thousands of troops. So would garrisoning eastern Ukraine.', http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21615605-now-willing-use-russian-troops-more-or-less-openly-eastern-ukraine-vladimir-putin-has

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Words formed from garrisoned

Questions about garrisoned

What is garrisoned the simple past and past participle of?
Garrisoned is the simple past and past participle of garrison.

Words near garrisoned in the dictionary

  1. Garrison finish
  2. garrison state
  3. garrison states
  4. garrison town
  5. garrison towns
  6. garrisoned
  7. Garrisonian
  8. Garrisonianism
  9. Garrisonians
  10. garrisoning
  11. Garrisonism

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