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Circumvallate

To surround with a rampart or wall.

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Fence 76% connected

That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.

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Palisade 76% connected

A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground…

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Surround 76% connected

To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.

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Wall 76% connected

A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

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Conservation noun · 78% connection

the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources

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Biodiversity noun · 78% connection

the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole); "a high level of biodiversity is desirabl…

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Conserve verb · 78% connection

keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not…

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Defunctness noun · 78% connection

no longer in existence; "the extinction of a species"

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Endangered adjective · 78% connection

(of flora or fauna) in imminent danger of extinction; "an endangered species"

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Extinction noun · 78% connection

no longer in existence; "the extinction of a species"

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Habitat noun · 78% connection

the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds"

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Home ground noun · 78% connection

the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds"

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Keep up verb · 78% connection

keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not…

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Loss noun · 78% connection

the act of losing someone or something; "everyone expected him to win so his loss was a shock"

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Maintain verb · 78% connection

keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not…

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Modesty noun · 78% connection

formality and propriety of manner

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Preserve verb · 78% connection

keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not…

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Protect verb · 78% connection

shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage; "Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain"

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Protected adjective · 78% connection

kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss; "the most protected spot I could find"

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Reserve noun · 78% connection

formality and propriety of manner

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Restoration noun · 78% connection

a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.

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Bastion noun · 78% connection

projecting part of a rampart or other fortification

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Batter verb · 78% connection

To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or ra…

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Bond noun · 78% connection

The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways…

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Boulevard noun · 78% connection

Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.

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Brisure noun · 78% connection

Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.

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Bulwark verb · 78% connection

To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect.

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Casern noun · 78% connection

A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks.

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Cast verb · 78% connection

To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.

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Cave in verb · 78% connection

break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The w…

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Circumvallation noun · 78% connection

The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

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Counterguard noun · 78% connection

A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting the…

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Curtain noun · 78% connection

That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.

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Defilade verb · 78% connection

To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.

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Defilading noun · 78% connection

The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from…

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Envelop noun · 78% connection

A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.

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Escalade verb · 78% connection

A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart.

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Fall in verb · 78% connection

break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The w…

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Fausse-braye noun · 78% connection

A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.

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