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buttress

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/ˈbʌtɹəs/ English

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noun

  1. A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
  2. Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
  3. A buttress-root.
  4. A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.

verb

  1. To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
  2. (by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.

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