buttresses
noun
- 1
A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- 2
Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- 3
A buttress-root.
- 4
A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.
- 5
Anything that supports or strengthens.
Synonyms
verb
- 1
To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
- 2
(by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.
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