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Word: buttress
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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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