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Definition of Buttress

1. Noun. A support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building.

2. Verb. Reinforce with a buttress. "Buttress the church"

3. Verb. Make stronger or defensible. "Buttress your thesis"

Definition of Buttress

1. n. A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.

2. v. t. To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.

Definition of Buttress

1. to prop up [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Medical Definition of Buttress

1. A flange of tissue protruding from the main outline of the base of a tree. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Buttress

buttonweed buttonwood buttonwood buttonwoods buttony button fern button hole button mangrove button pink button quail

button snakeroot button suture button tree button up buttress (current term) buttress (current term) buttressed buttresses buttressing buttress foot

buttress plate butts buttstock buttstocks buttweld butty butty buttyman buttymen butt against

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