RAMPART Synonyms

• a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.

• a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy

• render unsuitable for passage

• prevent access to by barricading

• block off with barricades

• a structure or object that impedes free movement

• any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective

• anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access

• fortification consisting of a low wall

• (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies

• the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947

• protection from harm

• (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring

• the justification for some act or belief

• (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

• the defendant and his legal advisors collectively

• the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions

• an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack

• a structure used to defend against attack

• a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him

• the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury

• an earthen rampart

• a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection

• a barrier that serves to enclose an area

• a dealer in stolen property

• enclose with a fence

• receive stolen goods

• fight with fencing swords

• surround with a wall in order to fortify

• have an argument about something

• defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it

• the art or science of strengthening defenses

• the addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food)

• fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground

• surround with a wall in order to fortify

• a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony

• fortification consisting of a low wall

• an inclined surface connecting two levels

• North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers

• a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft

• behave violently, as if in state of a great anger

• furnish with a ramp

• be rampant

• creep up -- used especially of plants

• stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing

• fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense

• a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)

• surround with a stockade in order to fortify

• a strongly fortified defensive structure

• an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure

• anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect

• (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure

• a difficult or awkward situation

• a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)

• a layer of material that encloses space

• a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)

• an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes

• surround with a wall in order to fortify