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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.

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