SHORE UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shore up mean? 

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

1. support by placing against something solid or rigid

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHORE 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 "shore 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 "shore up"):

bolster (prop up with a pillow or bolster)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

shoring up (the act of propping up with shores)

 Context examples 

The therapy is an attempt to shore up the health of remaining photoreceptors by replacing dying RPE with iPSC-derived RPE.

(Researchers rescue photoreceptors, prevent blindness in animal models of retinal degeneration, National Institutes of Health)