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bulwark
Meaning: strong defense or protection against danger, pressure, or attack
bulwark in a sentence
How bulwark is used in real sentences:
An independent press can serve as a bulwark against abuses of power.
The fortress wall remained the city's chief bulwark against invading armies.
“Instead, she acquiesced to printing the whole text, while treating accuracy as a bulwark against the pressure to soften its cruelty.”
— from the passage The Unsmoothed Voice
Synonyms for bulwark
Other words for bulwark — safeguard, defense and rampart — carry the same meaning.
- safeguard
- defense
- rampart
Antonyms of bulwark
Words that mean the opposite of bulwark:
- weakness
- exposure
- vulnerability
Where it comes from
From Middle Dutch bolwerc, meaning 'defensive wall.'
Memory hook
BULWARK sounds like 'bull work': a strong bull stands like a barrier against attack.