Associations to the word «Buttress»

BUTTRESS, noun. (architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.

BUTTRESS, noun. Anything that serves to support something; a prop.

BUTTRESS, noun. (botany) A buttress-root.

BUTTRESS, noun. (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.

BUTTRESS, noun. (figurative) Anything that supports or strengthens.

BUTTRESS, verb. To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.

BUTTRESS, verb. To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.

BUTTRESS, noun. A support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building.

BUTTRESS, verb. Reinforce with a buttress; "Buttress the church".

BUTTRESS, verb. Make stronger or defensible; "buttress your thesis".