How to pronounce“buttress”in English
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Definitions of “buttress”
A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
“It was decided, therefore, to build eight concrete buttresses from the new strengthening work to safeguard the general stability of the wall along the length where the greatest movement had taken place.”
Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
To support something or someone by supplying evidence.
“Buttressed by elaborate account statements and a deep reservoir of trust from his investors and regulators, Mr. Madoff steered his fraud scheme safely through a severe recession in the early 1990s, a global financial crisis in 1998 and the anxious aftermath of the terrorist attacks in September 2001.”
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