Usually means: Strengthened or supported with reinforcements.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. bolstered: Merriam-Webster
  2. bolstered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bolstered: Vocabulary.com
  4. Bolstered, bolstered: Wordnik
  5. bolstered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. bolstered: Wiktionary
  7. Bolstered, bolstered: Dictionary.com
  8. bolstered: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Bolstered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. bolstered: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Bolstered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. bolstered: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. bolstered: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Bolstered: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bolstered: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. bolstered: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bolstered: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bolstered)

▸ adjective:  padded

Similar:
pad, support, bolster up, long pillow, gamboised, barded, barbed, underwired, braced, backplated, more...

Opposite:
weakened, diminished, reduced, decreased

Types:
encouraged, supported, aided, strengthened, sustained, more...

Phrases:
bolstered by, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     emerald,     burgundy,     charcoal,     teal, more...



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Similar:
pad, support, bolster up, long pillow, gamboised, barded, barbed, underwired, braced, backplated, more...

Opposite:
weakened, diminished, reduced, decreased

Types:
encouraged, supported, aided, strengthened, sustained, more...

Phrases:
bolstered by, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     emerald,     burgundy,     charcoal,     teal, more...



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