Usually means: Strengthen or support something weak.
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  1. shore up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shore up: Merriam-Webster
  3. shore up: Vocabulary.com
  4. shore up: Wiktionary
  5. shore up: Dictionary.com
  6. shore up: Rhymezone
  7. shore up: FreeDictionary.org
  8. shore up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. shore up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. shore-up: Wordnik

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  1. shore up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shore up: Encyclopedia

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  1. shore up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shore up: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (shore up)

verb:  (transitive, often figuratively) To reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure).

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