fortresslike
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fortresslike (comparative more fortresslike, superlative most fortresslike)
- Resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.
- 2019 December 13, Annie Correal, “Why Workers Fear Moving 50 Criminally Insane Patients”, in The New York Times[1]:
- 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.