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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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bulwarks

2 of 2

noun

plural of bulwark

1

as in ramparts

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

2

as in buttresses

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

3

as in embankments

Synonyms & Similar Words

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