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Word | Buttress |
Italian Meaning | contrafforte, sperone, appoggio, sostegno, supporto, sostenere con un contrafforte |
a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building / reinforce with a buttress / A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry. / support; prop up / a projecting support of stone or brick built against a wall. / a structure built against a wall in order to support or strengthen it / to support, strengthen, or defend (something), | |
Usage | ⇒ The governments fiscal policy acts as a buttress against inflation ⇒ Just as architects buttress the walls of cathedrals with flying buttresses, debaters buttress their arguments with facts. ⇒ the mother had always been the buttress of our family in trying times ⇒ The remnant of a long-disused church building, it was built out of solid stone with massive buttresses supporting long, high walls. ⇒ The goverment's policy of buttressing democracy all over the world ⇒ the buttresses of society |
Synonyms | support, prop, bolster, brace, reinforce, strengthen, stay, fortify, sustain, uphold, shore, mainstay, reinforcement, back, shore up, column, confirm, corroborate, crutch, abutment, |
Antonyms | weaken, let down, add, administer, belie, bring down, carve, chop, compress, cut, debase, debunk, degrade, attenuate, concentrate, condense, confound, confute, conquer, curtail, |
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