buttress

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

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