FORTIFY Copy link • FORTIFYDefend a place by works, munire: communire: praemunire (by any sort of visible protection, as walls, ditches, palisades, etc.): operibus munire; munitionibus firmare (by works, fortifications, etc.): muris munire: moenibus sepire (by surrounding with walls): castellis sepire (by citadels, redoubts, etc.): vallo et fossa circumdare locum: vallum et fossam circumdare loco (by palisades and ditches; e.g., a camp). A fortified town, urbs munita: oppidum munitum: fortified by nature, loci natura munitus; naturaliter munitus; situ naturali munitus: fortified both by art and nature, et natura loci et manu or operibus et loco munitus; cum manu munitus, tum natura loci: nature has fortified Italy by its Alps, Alpibus muniit Italiam natura. Strengthen, confirm, Vid.