Synonyms of bulwarks

bulwarks 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of bulwark

as in protects

to drive danger or attack away from

vowed to use any means necessary to bulwark the country against attack

Synonyms & Similar Words

• protects
• shields
• defends
• safeguards
• guards
• fences
• secures
• wards
• keeps
• screens
• fends
• forfends
• stands up for
• covers
• prevents
• walls
• saves
• preserves
• wars
• resists
• withstands
• opposes
• conserves
• buffers
• palisades
• averts
• fights
• contends
• battles
• pickets

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• attacks
• assaults
• assails
• storms
• overruns
• besets
• bombards
• yields
• submits
• besieges
• caves
• capitulates

bulwarks

2 of 2

noun

plural of bulwark

1

as in ramparts

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ramparts
• battlements
• parapets
• fortifications
• fortresses
• bastions
• forts
• breastworks
• strongholds
• earthworks
• citadels
• castles
• redoubts
• bunkers
• embattlements
• blockhouses
• dugouts
• holds
• garrison houses
• casbahs
• kasbahs
• alcazars

2

as in buttresses

Synonyms & Similar Words

• buttresses
• anchorages
• foundations
• frameworks
• shores
• infrastructures
• beds
• substructures
• mounts
• props
• braces
• supports
• cornerstones
• substrata
• keystones
• footings
• underpinnings
• grounds
• stays
• bedrocks
• roots
• warps
• justifications
• theories
• bases
• assumptions
• presumptions
• presuppositions
• premises
• rationales
• premisses
• warrants
• backbones
• theses
• groundworks
• bottoms
• warp and woofs
• centers
• seats
• kernels
• suppositions
• foci
• focuses
• hubs
• touchstones
• nuclei
• hearts
• nucleuses
• eyes
• essences
• cores
• souls
• quintessences

3

as in embankments

Synonyms & Similar Words

• embankments
• tors
• buttes
• cliffs
• declivities
• precipices
• palisades
• hogbacks
• bluffs
• cuestas
• crags
• scars
• escarpments
• scarps
• pitches
• barrancos
• drop-offs
• barrancas