buttress

/bˈʌtɹəs/

/ˈbətɹəs/

[noun] [verb]

Buttress

[NOUN]

a protruding structure that supports a building or wall and is made out of bricks or stones

synonyms : buttressing

to buttress

[VERB]

MAIN VERB

make stronger or defensible

reinforce with a buttress

Examples

1. The discovery of the asteroid Juno by Karl Ludwig Harding and Vesta by Olbers, buttressed his hypothesis.

2. yeah they they buttress this spring pin

3. These ice shelves buttress the flow of the ice upstream, the ice that's flowing into the system.

4. Craniologists, eugenicists, phrenologists, and Social Darwinists, at the very educational level, buttressed the belief that blacks were innately intellectually and culturally inferior to whites.