BULWARK meaning: Strong defensive wall; protective barrier

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General (26 matching dictionaries)

bulwark: Merriam-Webster.com
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bulwark: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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bulwark: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Bulwark, Bulwark: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
bulwark: Wiktionary
bulwark: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
bulwark: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
bulwark: Infoplease Dictionary
Bulwark, bulwark: Dictionary.com
bulwark: Online Etymology Dictionary
Bulwark (comics), Bulwark (nautical), Bulwark, The Bulwark (website), The Bulwark: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Bulwark: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
bulwark: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
bulwark: Rhymezone
Bulwark: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
bulwark: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
bulwark: Free Dictionary
bulwark: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
bulwark: Mnemonic Dictionary
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bulwark: Legal dictionary

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bulwark: Encyclopedia

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bulwark: Urban Dictionary

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AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
Bulwark: Dictionary of Military Architecture

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A defensive wall or rampart.
▸ noun:  A defense or safeguard.
▸ noun:  A breakwater.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  (figurative) Any means of defence or security.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To provide protection of defense for something.

Similar:

rampart, wall, seawall, breakwater, jetty, groyne, groin, mole, forewall, barricade, more...

Opposite:

weakness, vulnerability, defenselessness

Types:

seawall, levee, dike, dam, more...

Phrases:

bastion or bulwark, more...

Adjectives:

great, last, only, strongest, chief, main, important, best, principal, mighty, powerful

Colors:

gray, charcoal, iron, graphite, stone, more...

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