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Rarebuttress
The correct spelling is buttress.
How to pronounce buttress
/ˈbʌtɹəs/
nounIPA: /ˈbʌtɹəs/
Say it like: But-tre-ss
The correct spelling is buttress. A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
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Meanings
noun
- 1.A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- 2.Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- 3.A buttress-root.
- 4.A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.
- 5.Anything that supports or strengthens.
verb
- 1.To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
- 2.(by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.
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