buttress

[But·tress]

You can buttress an argument with solid facts or your financial portfolio with safe investments. You may find that giving compliments to everyone you meet buttresses your popularity. To buttress is to sustain or reinforce.

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A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.

Noun
a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building

Verb
make stronger or defensible; "buttress your thesis"

Verb
reinforce with a buttress; "Buttress the church"


n.
A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.

n.
Anything which supports or strengthens.

v. t.
To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.


Buttress

But"tress , n. [OE. butrasse, boterace, fr. F. bouter to push; cf. OF. bouteret (nom. sing. and acc. pl. bouterez) buttress. See Butt an end, and cf. Butteris.] 1. (Arch.) A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry. &hand; When an external projection is used merely to stiffen a wall, it is a pier. 2. Anything which supports or strengthens. "The ground pillar and buttress of the good old cause of nonconformity." South. Flying buttress. See Flying buttress.

Buttress

But"tress , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buttressed (); p. pr. & vb. n. Buttressing.] To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
To set it upright again, and to prop and buttress it up for duration.

A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.

To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.

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Usage Examples

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

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