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Definition of Prop up
1. Verb. Support by placing against something solid or rigid. "Shore and buttress an old building"
Generic synonyms: Hold, Hold Up, Support, Sustain
Specialized synonyms: Bolster
Derivative terms: Prop, Shore, Shoring, Shoring Up
Definition of Prop up
1. Verb. (transitive) To support with, or as if with, a prop. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prop Up
Literary usage of Prop up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"However, a breaking merchant, whom the bank will no longer prop up, will naturally
blame the bank, just as every insolvent blames a solvent, that will not ..."
2. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"I. a. to stake, prop up; I« put poles to (hops) ; II. n. to «hoot or grow into
stalks, to get stalk. ..."
3. An ecclesiastical history of Ireland, from the first introduction of by John Lanigan (1822)
"Usher, to prop up that fable, places the grant of Clonard in 544 (Ind. Chron.J,
yet at A. 540 he has Kieran among ..."
4. The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary by Edward Tregear (1891)
"To support or prop up anything with a pole or poles : Ko Tañe anake, na na i
tokotoko te rangi tou—Wohl., Trans., vii. 35. TOKO, a pole, a rod : He mata nga ..."
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