Usually means: Supporting to prevent failure, collapse.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. propping up: Merriam-Webster
  2. propping up: Vocabulary.com
  3. Propping-Up, propping-up: Wordnik
  4. propping up: Dictionary.com
  5. propping up: Rhymezone
  6. propping up: FreeDictionary.org
  7. propping up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. propping up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. propping up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. propping up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. propping up: Medical dictionary

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  1. propping up: Idioms

Definitions from WordNet (propping up)

noun:  the act of propping up with shores


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