Definitions from Wiktionary (buttress)
▸ noun: (architecture) A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
▸ noun: (by extension) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
▸ noun: (botany) A buttress-root.
▸ noun: (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
▸ noun: (figurative) Anything that supports or strengthens.
▸ verb: To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
▸ verb: (figurative, by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence.
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▸ noun: (architecture) A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
▸ noun: (by extension) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
▸ noun: (botany) A buttress-root.
▸ noun: (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
▸ noun: (figurative) Anything that supports or strengthens.
▸ verb: To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
▸ verb: (figurative, by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence.
Similar:
counterfort,
abutment,
flying buttress,
bastion,
bearing,
butment,
underpinning,
backstop,
brattice,
bracket,
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