buttress
IPA: bˈʌtrʌs
noun
- (architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- (by extension) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- (botany) A buttress-root.
- (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
- (figurative) Anything that supports or strengthens.
verb
- To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
- (figurative, by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence.
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Examples of "buttress" in Sentences
- The walls and buttress were made of tezontle.
- The base of the trunk sometimes has buttresses.
- 'Endiandra discolor' is a buttressed rainforest tree.
- At the base of the buttress are two dungeons or cells.
- Four citations buttress the claims made in the passage.
- But the second argument does tend to buttress the first.
- Heavy buttresses divide the windows and support the tower.
- The nave to the east cuts around the buttress to embrace it.
- The mountain is located on the western buttress of Abbot Pass.
- It was among the first buildings in the world to use the flying buttress.