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bastille
noun as in cell
noun as in defense
Strong matches
- aegis
- armor
- arms
- barricade
- bastion
- bulwark
- buttress
- citadel
- cover
- deterrence
- dike
- embankment
- fastness
- fence
- fort
- fortification
- fortress
- garrison
- guard
- hard shell
- immunity
- munitions
- palisade
- parapet
- position
- protection
- rampart
- redoubt
- resistance
- safeguard
- security
- shelter
- shield
- stockade
- stronghold
- trench
- wall
- ward
- warfare
- weaponry
- weapons
noun as in jail
noun as in pokey
noun as in prison
Strongest matches
Weak matches
verb as in imprison
Strong matches
verb as in incarcerate
verb as in jail
Example Sentences
“If we have a fourth one, Jerusalem will become a new bastille.”
Reading some of the coverage, you’d think someone was storming the bastille.
“There are more prisoners in my bastille, my jail, and higher costs for arrests.”
Chains cannot bind that down; bastilles cannot shut it in; and every attempt to crush it is but an effort of tyranny both impotent and cruel.
"And he is now incarcerated in your bastille."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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