Definitions from Wiktionary (buttress)

▸ noun:  (architecture) A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
▸ noun:  (by extension) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
▸ noun:  (botany) A buttress-root.
▸ noun:  (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
▸ noun:  (figurative) Anything that supports or strengthens.
▸ verb:  To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
▸ verb:  (figurative, by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence.
▸ Also see buttress





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