Buttress has 5 different meanings across 2 categories:
Noun
· Verb
Noun
1
a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building
2
A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
Verb
1
reinforce with a buttress
"Buttress the church"
2
make stronger or defensible
"buttress your thesis"
3
To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
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