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Buttress

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Noun

1. buttress, buttressing

a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building

Verb

2. buttress

reinforce with a buttress

Example Sentences:
'Buttress the church'

3. buttress

make stronger or defensible

Example Sentences:
'buttress your thesis'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Buttress

see synonyms of buttress
noun
1. Also called: pier
a construction, usually of brick or stone, built to support a wall
See also flying buttress
2. 
any support or prop
3. 
something shaped like a buttress, such as a projection from a mountainside
4. 
either of the two pointed rear parts of a horse's hoof
verb (transitive)
5. 
to support (a wall) with a buttress
6. 
to support or sustain

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Buttress

see synonyms of buttress
noun
1. 
a projecting structure, generally of brick or stone, built against a wall to support or reinforce it
2. 
anything like a buttress; support or prop
verb transitive
3. 
to support or reinforce with a buttress
4. 
to prop up; bolster

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Buttress

see synonyms of buttress
n.
1. A structure, usually brick or stone, built against a wall for support or reinforcement.
2. Something resembling a buttress, as:
a. The flared base of certain tree trunks.
b. A horny growth on the heel of a horse's hoof.
3. Something that serves to support, prop, or reinforce:"The law is by its very nature a buttress of the status quo"(J. William Fulbright).
tr.v.but·tressed, but·tress·ing, but·tress·es
1. To support or reinforce with a buttress.
2. To sustain, prop, or bolster:"The author buttresses her analysis with lengthy dissections of several of Moore's poems"(Warren Woessner).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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