BUTTRESS

buttress, buttressing

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

buttress

(verb) make stronger or defensible; “buttress your thesis”

buttress

(verb) reinforce with a buttress; “Buttress the church”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

buttress (plural buttresses)

(architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.

Anything that serves to support something; a prop.

(botany) A buttress-root.

(climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.

(figurative) Anything that supports or strengthens.

Synonyms

• counterfort

• brace

Verb

buttress (third-person singular simple present buttresses, present participle buttressing, simple past and past participle buttressed)

To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.

(figurative, by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.

Anagrams

• betrusts

Source: Wiktionary

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But"tress, n. Etym: [OE. butrasse, boterace, fr. F. bouter to push; cf. OF. bouteret (nom. sing. and acc. pl. bouterez) buttress. See Butt an end, and cf. Butteris.]

1. (Arch.)

Definition: A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.

Note: When an external projection is used merely to stiffen a wall, it is a pier.

2. Anything which supports or strengthens. "The ground pillar and buttress of the good old cause of nonconformity." South. Flying buttress. See Flying buttress.

But"tress, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buttressed (p. pr. & vb. n. Buttressing.]

Definition: To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly. To set it upright again, and to prop and buttress it up for duration. Burke.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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