bulwark

noun · verbB1

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noun

Plural noun:

bulwarks

1.
A defensive wall or rampart.
2.
A defense or safeguard.
3.
A breakwater.
4.
(nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
5.
(figuratively)(figurative) Any means of defence or security.
The party stalwarts constitute the bulwark that ensures the president's term of office.

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verb

V_es/s

bulwarks

V_ing/Gerund

bulwarking

V_ed/pp

bulwarked

1.
(transitive)To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
2.
(transitive)To provide protection of defense for something.

Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English bulwerk, from Middle Dutch bolwerk, bolwerc and bolwerk, equivalent to bole + work. Cognate with Bollwerk, bolværk, bålverk, bolwerk. boulevard (from boulevard, from Dutch); cognate with and baluarte and baluardo.