Usually means: Support or strengthen; prop up.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word bolster:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. bolster: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bolster, bolster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bolster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bolster: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bolster: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bolster, bolster: Wordnik
  7. bolster: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bolster, bolster: Wiktionary
  9. bolster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bolster: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bolster: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bolster, bolster: Dictionary.com
  13. bolster: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bolster: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bolster (knife), Bolster (surname), Bolster: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bolster: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bolster: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bolster: Rhymezone
  19. Bolster: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bolster: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Bolster: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. bolster: Free Dictionary
  23. bolster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bolster: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  4. bolster: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bolster: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bolster: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bolster: Easton Bible
  2. BOLSTER: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bolster: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bolster: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See bolstered as well.)

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noun:  A large cushion or pillow, usually cylindrical in shape.
noun:  A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
noun:  (vehicles, agriculture) A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.
noun:  A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.
noun:  A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.
noun:  The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
noun:  The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
noun:  The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
noun:  (architecture) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
noun:  (military, historical) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
noun:  (figurative) That which supports or promotes; a catalyst.
verb:  (transitive, often figurative) To brace, reinforce, secure, or support.
noun:  A surname from German.
noun:  A ghost town in Okanogan County, Washington, United States.

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