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buttresses

The correct spelling is buttresses.

How to pronounce buttresses

noun

Say it like: But-tre-sse-s

The correct spelling is buttresses. A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.

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Meanings

noun

  1. 1.A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
  2. 2.Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
  3. 3.A buttress-root.
  4. 4.A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.
  5. 5.Anything that supports or strengthens.

verb

  1. 1.To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
  2. 2.(by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.

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