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Shore

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Noun

1. shore

the land along the edge of a body of water

2. shore, shoring

a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support

Verb

3. shore

serve as a shore to

Example Sentences:
'The river was shored by trees'

4. land, set ashore, shore

arrive on shore

Example Sentences:
'The ship landed in Pearl Harbor'

5. prop, prop up, shore, shore up

support by placing against something solid or rigid

Example Sentences:
'shore and buttress an old building'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Shore

see synonyms of shore
noun
1. 
the land along the edge of a sea, lake, or wide river
▶ Related adjective: littoral
2. 
a. 
land, as opposed to water (esp in the phrase on shore)
b. 
(as modifier)
shore duty
3. law
the tract of coastland lying between the ordinary marks of high and low water
4. (often plural)
a country
his native shores
verb
5. (transitive)
to move or drag (a boat) onto a shore
noun
1. 
a prop, post, or beam used to support a wall, building, ship in dry dock, etc
verb
2. (transitive; often foll by up)
to prop or make safe with or as if with a shore
verb
Australian and New Zealand a past tense of shear

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Shore

see synonyms of shore
noun
1. 
land at or near the edge of a body of water, esp. along an ocean, large lake, etc.
2. 
land as opposed to water
3.  Law
seashore
noun
1. 
a prop, as a beam, placed under or against something as a support or stabilizer; specif., any of the timbers used to support a boat or ship that is out of water
verb transitiveWord forms: shored or ˈshoring
2. 
to support or make stable with or as if with a shore or shores; prop
usually with up
verb transitive, verb intransitive
Dialectal, Archaic
shear

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

Shore

see synonyms of shore
n.
1. The land along the edge of an ocean, sea, lake, or river; a coast.
2. often shores Land; country: far from our native shores.
3. Land as opposed to water: a sailor with an assignment on shore.
tr.v. shored, shor·ing, shores
To support by or as if by a prop: shored up the sagging floors; shored up the peace initiative.
n.
A beam or timber propped against a structure to provide support.
v.
Archaic
A past tense of shear.

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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