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to shore up
[phrase form: shore]
01
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
Action verb
Regular
Separable
Present tense
shore up
3rd person singular
shores up
Past simple
shored up
Past participle
shored up
Examples
They shored the weakened wall up with additional beams.
