buttressing
/ˈbʌtrəsɪŋ/
noun
- A support or reinforcement, often a structure built against a wall to strengthen it.
- The garden wall needed buttressing after the heavy rains.
- Engineers added steel buttressing to the dam for extra stability.
- The old cathedral's buttressing kept the walls from collapsing.
- Something that provides support or strength to an argument, system, or idea.
- The evidence was the main buttressing of the prosecution's case.
- Her speech offered strong buttressing for the proposed policy.
- The new data served as buttressing for the theory.
verb
- Present participle of buttress; to support or reinforce something, either physically or figuratively.
- The lawyer is buttressing her argument with new evidence.
- By saving money, he is buttressing his family's financial future.
- They are buttressing the old bridge with steel beams.
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