fortresslike

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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.

词形变化

more fortresslike comparative most fortresslike superlative

词源

Etymology tree
English fortress
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -like
English -like
English fortresslike
From fortress + -like.
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