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WIKTIONARY
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.