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Meaning of fort up | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To fortify (a place); to convert into a fort.

informal, transitive

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

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