buttress

About 0.83 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   Crowell Buttresses, Dismal Buttress

5. noun Anything that supports or strengthens.
6. verb To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
7. verb To support something or someone by supplying evidence.

Similar words

pillar entrench underpin bolster backstop build enhance uphold consolidate strengthen

Often followed by

the of his their and to this its is

Word family

buttressed buttresses buttressing