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to shore up
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to prevent a building or a part of it from falling, by putting large pieces of wood or metal under or against it
Transitive: to shore up a building or structure
Grammatical Information
Composition
phrasal
Action verb
Regular
Separable
Particle
up
Base verb
shore
Present tense
shore up
3rd person singular
shores up
Present participle
shoring up
Past simple
shored up
Past participle
shored up
Examples
They shored the weakened wall up with additional beams.
