PROP UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prop up mean? 

• PROP UP (verb)
  The verb PROP UP has 1 sense:

1. support by placing against something solid or rigid

  Familiarity information: PROP UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROP UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Support by placing against something solid or rigid

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

prop; prop up; shore; shore up

Context example:

shore and buttress an old building

Hypernyms (to "prop up" is one way to...):

hold; hold up; support; sustain (be the physical support of; carry the weight of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "prop up"):

bolster (prop up with a pillow or bolster)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

This, par parenthese, will be thought cool language by persons who entertain solemn doctrines about the angelic nature of children, and the duty of those charged with their education to conceive for them an idolatrous devotion: but I am not writing to flatter parental egotism, to echo cant, or prop up humbug; I am merely telling the truth.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)