buttress

Meaning

Noun

1. A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
2. (broadly) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
3. A buttress-root.
4. A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
5. (figuratively) Anything that supports or strengthens.

Verb

1. To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
2. (broadly, figuratively) To support something or someone by supplying evidence.

Synonyms

support

prop

back

🔙

underpin

rest

pier

abutment

sustain

strut

bolster

reinforce

brace

boost

counterfort

strengthen

base

uphold

substantiate

lean

bear out

truss

buttressing

second

2nd

shore

bearing

carry

stanchion

pillar

hold up

indorse

intensify

linchpin

mainstay

maintain

patronage

play

press

prop up

push

put

ratify

reconfirm

reward

rock

🪨

shore up

sponsor

standby

stand by

stay

stick

stiffener

subsidise

subsidize

subvention

supporter

toughen

transistorize

trellis

undergird

underlay

underwrite

validate

verify

vouch

stick by

underprop

buttress up

officialise

subvent

support column

transistorise

rest pier

alette

abut

accredit

adhere

affirm

amplify

ascertain

authenticate

backing

back up

basis

bear

🐻

bolster up

brace up

build

bulwark

buoy

cement

certify

confirm

consolidate

corroborate

countenance

document

endorse

espouse

establish

fortify

Translations

contrafuerte

contrefort

stut

contrafforte

appui

stützen

ondersteunen

Strebepfeiler

sperone

steun

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbʌtɹəs/

Etymology

From Old French ars bouterez (noun, literally “supporting arcs”), from bouterez (adjective), oblique plural of bouteret (rare in the singular), from Frankish *bôtan, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push”). Ultimately cognate with beat.