fortify

Other forms of fortify

past tense or participle

fortified

present participle

fortifying·

third person

fortifies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fortify

What does fortify mean?

fortify means "make strong or stronger". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fortify?

fortify has 3 syllables: for-ti-fy. The stress falls on "for". In IPA it is /ˈfɔɹtɪˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for fortify?

Close synonyms include strengthen, beef up, fort, arm, build up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fortify a common word?

fortify is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fortify?

72 words rhyme with fortify. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.