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- verb Present participle of
fortress .
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Examples
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By far the biggest market is the fortressing of Europe and North America -- Halliburton's contract to build detention centers for an unspecified immigration influx, Boeing's "virtual" border fence, biometric ID cards.
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He had been steeling himself for the ordeal; schooling himself with arguments; fortressing his resolve, unconsciously, perhaps, with the picture of his own heroism in braving the unknown.
The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West Robert J. C. Stead 1919
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