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Meaning of abatised | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
/ˈæb.əˌtɪst/

Definitions

Provided with an abatis.

not-comparable

Examples

“Their defenses at Boston Neck had been built up and greatly strengthened, and on Bunker's Hill they had built an elaborate fortress, with a thick parapet, well ditched, fraised, and abatised, of which Washington said "Twenty thousand men could not have carried it against one thousand had that work been well defended."”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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