Gird vs Fortify - What's the difference?
gird | fortify | Synonyms |
To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
To prepare oneself for an action.
A sarcastic remark.
* Shakespeare
A stroke with a rod or switch.
A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
* Tillotson
To jeer at.
* Shakespeare
To jeer.
* Shakespeare
To increase the defenses of; to strengthen and secure by military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.
To impart strength or vigor to.
* Sir Walter Scott
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To increase the effectiveness of, as by additional ingredients.
* 1979 , Kiplinger's Personal Finance (volume 33, number 7, July 1979, page 47)
Gird is a synonym of fortify.
As verbs the difference between gird and fortify
is that gird is to bind with a flexible rope or cord or gird can be to jeer at while fortify is to increase the defenses of; to strengthen and secure by military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.As a noun gird
is a sarcastic remark.gird
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Verb
- The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large.
- The lady girt herself with silver chain, from which she hung a golden shear.
- Our home is girt by sea... -
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- I thank thee for that gird , good Tranio.
- Conscience is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels.
Verb
(en verb)- Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.
- Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.
fortify
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution.
- Compare the nutrition information label of a regular ready-to-eat fortified cereal with that of a presweetened brand and you'll note that, although the sweetened one's sugar content is higher, the fortification is virtually identical.
