buttress
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Synonyms: eustress, suitress, mattress, huntress, butters, tutoress, outdress, untress, buttresses, butties, buttes
Antonyms: eustress, suitress, mattress, huntress, butters, tutoress, outdress, untress, buttresses, butties, buttes
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Noun
- {{lb|en|architecture}} A [[brick]], [[concrete]] or [[stone]] [[structure]] built against another structure to [[support]] it.
- {{lb|en|by extension}} Anything that serves to support something; a [[prop]].
- {{lb|en|botany}} A [[buttress root]].
- {{lb|en|climbing}} A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
- {{lb|en|figurative}} Anything that supports or strengthens.
Verb
- To support something [[physically]] with, or as if with, a [[prop]] or buttress.
- {{lb|en|figurative|by extension}} To support something or someone by supplying [[evidence]].
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