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