buttress
Meaning of buttress
noun
- A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- A buttress-root.
- A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.
- Anything that supports or strengthens.
- To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
- (by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.
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Hyphenation of buttress
but-tress
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- buttress is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
buttress synonyms
Meaning buttressing:
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Translation of buttress
- Italian: contrafforte
- Spanish: contrafuerte
- German: Strebepfeiler
Words that rhyme with buttress
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