buttress
Plural: buttresses
Noun
- a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building
- A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- A buttress-root.
- A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
- Anything that supports or strengthens.
Verb
Verb Forms: buttressed, buttressing, buttresses
- To provide support, strength, or reinforcement to.
- reinforce with a buttress
- "Buttress the church"
- make stronger or defensible
- "buttress your thesis"
- To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
- To support something or someone by supplying evidence.
Examples
- He tried to BUTTRESS his low score by finding a seven-letter word on the double word.
Origin / Etymology
From Old French ars bouterez (noun, literally “supporting arcs”), from bouterez (adjective), oblique plural of bouteret (rare in the singular), from Frankish *bôtan, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push”). Ultimately cognate with beat.
Synonyms
buttressing, bluff, brace, corroborate, counterfort, crag, substantiate
Scrabble Score: 10
buttress: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbuttress: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
buttress: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary