Synonyms for buttress
- noun
- verb
Definitions
- n. 1
A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- n. 2
A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
Crowell Buttresses, Dismal Buttress
- v. 1
To support something or someone by supplying evidence.
Related words
- Phrases
- buttress root flying buttress
- Other spellings
- butteris buttrice
Forms
- Plural
- buttresses → bolsters, braces, props, supports…
- Past participle
- buttressed
e.g. buttressed → substantiated, corroborated, underpinned, re-enforced…
Example sentences
- prop He fetched a few cushions to prop up her head.
- brace Yanni brought his mother a back brace from the UK.
- bolster You need some evidence to bolster your claim.
By length
- 4 letters
- stay1, prop1, pier1, crag1
- 5 letters
- shore1, brace1, bluff1
- 7 letters
- support2, sustain2, bolster2
- 8 letters
- underpin3, abutment
- 11 letters
- corroborate4, counterfort
- 12 letters
- substantiate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (support2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- contrefort
- Italiano
- contrafforte
- Deutsch
- Gewölbepfeiler