Fortresslike
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.
"The move will transfer the facility’s more than 200 prisoners, including 50 deemed criminally insane, from a fortresslike building with bars on the windows and cement walls and ceilings into a unit of Manhattan Psychiatric Center, a civilian hospital close by on Wards Island."
Example
More examples"The move will transfer the facility’s more than 200 prisoners, including 50 deemed criminally insane, from a fortresslike building with bars on the windows and cement walls and ceilings into a unit of Manhattan Psychiatric Center, a civilian hospital close by on Wards Island."
Etymology
From fortress + -like.
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