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Word: buttress (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
  • architecture A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
  • botany A buttress-root.

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Verb:

  • To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.
  • To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.

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