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BUTTRESSED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does buttressed mean?
• BUTTRESSED (adjective)
The adjective BUTTRESSED has 1 sense:
1. held up by braces or buttresses
Familiarity information: BUTTRESSED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Held up by braces or buttresses
Synonyms:
braced; buttressed
Similar:
supported (held up or having the weight borne especially from below)
Context examples
I think I was glad to know it; I think I was glad to have my better impulses thus buttressed and guarded by the terrors of the scaffold.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Its land boundary is buttressed by massive, floating ice shelves extending hundreds of miles out over the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean.
(Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to ice-sheet instability as much as predicted, National Science Foundation)
Ruth's mind was quick, and her disapproval of her lover's views was buttressed by the contradiction she found in his contention.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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