buttressed : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: buttressed	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
buttressed adj held up by braces or buttresses [syn: braced, buttressed]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Buttress \But"tress\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Buttressed} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Buttressing}.] To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly. To set it upright again, and to prop and buttress it up for duration. --Burke.