buttress

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Synonyms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 References

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From Old French bouterez, bouteret, from Frankish *botan, from Proto-Germanic *bōtan (“‘to push’”) ( > English beat).

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• (UK) IPA: /ˈbʌtɹəs/

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buttress (plural buttresses)

1. (architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
2. Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
3. (botany) A buttress-root.

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• flying buttress

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• counterfort

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to buttress (third-person singular simple present buttresses, present participle buttressing, simple past and past participle buttressed)

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

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