Buttress Definition

bŭtrĭs
buttressed, buttresses, buttressing
noun
buttresses
A projecting structure, generally of brick or stone, built against a wall to support or reinforce it.
Webster's New World
Something resembling a buttress, as:
American Heritage
Anything like a buttress; support or prop.
Webster's New World
(botany) A buttress-root.
Wiktionary

(climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.

Crowell Buttresses, Dismal Buttress, Hourglass Buttress, Kardam Buttress, Seven Buttresses.
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verb
buttressed, buttresses, buttressing
To support or reinforce with a buttress.
Webster's New World
To prop up; bolster.
Webster's New World

To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.

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Other Word Forms of Buttress

Noun

Singular:
buttress
Plural:
buttresses

Origin of Buttress

  • From Old French bouterés, nominative singular of bouteret, from Frankish *botan, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push”). Ultimately cognate with beat.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English buteras from Old French bouterez from bouter to strike against of Germanic origin bhau- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Buttress Sentence Examples

  • The Kasteel-Berg (Castle Mount), a northern buttress of the mountain, has its own peculiar flora.

  • The history of reformed dogmatics on this subject does not buttress your point unfortunately.

  • Set in the eastern buttress of the tower is a huge holy water stoup, quite out of scale with the door.

  • We emerge at the foot of a huge rocky buttress to delightful grassy pastures.

  • Its walls are lofty and supported by buttress bastions with loopholed turrets at intervals; the fortifications, however, are but of hard clay and are much out of repair.

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