buttress
- Noun. (architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- Noun. Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- Noun. (botany) A buttress-root.
- Noun. (context, climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.
- Verb. To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
- Verb. To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.
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