buttressed

/buh-tris/US // ˈbʌ trɪs //UK // (ˈbʌtrɪs) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any external prop or support built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts, especially a projecting support built into or against the outside of a masonry wall.
- : any prop or support.
- : a thing shaped like a buttress, as a tree trunk with a widening base.
- : a bony or horny protuberance, especially on a horse's hoof.

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to support by a buttress; prop up.
- : to give encouragement or support to.

nounbrace, support

Synonyms

Balustrades had fallen, gargoyles had broken, flying buttresses were blackened and worn away by pollution.
Within minutes, we were picking our way across buttressed tree roots and hopscotching across rivulets in the stream.
Negotiations can be buttressed by dramatic acts of (American) pragmatism.
And President Obama, buttressed by his newly discovered spine, has essentially said as much.
Now comes The Endgame: its 691 pages of narrative are buttressed by 68 pages of source notes.
Maybe it is his own reputation for rectitude, a reputation buttressed by the lack of scandals in his administration.
On the Little Douvre, their extremities were laid and buttressed upon the projections of rock.
To all appearance he was secure in his inheritance and buttressed against any peril.
And this evening, as usual, she slipped unobserved amongst the roses into the corner of the buttressed wall.
The church is of dressed stone and adobe, with massive walls heavily buttressed.
In the south the Big-Tree forests are in the areas that were effectively buttressed and shielded from ice-flows.

/buh-tris/US // ˈbʌ trɪs //UK // (ˈbʌtrɪs) //

对接,对接的,对接的方式,臀部

n.名词 noun

1
- : any external prop or support built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts, especially a projecting support built into or against the outside of a masonry wall.
- : any prop or support.
- : a thing shaped like a buttress, as a tree trunk with a widening base.
- : a bony or horny protuberance, especially on a horse's hoof.

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to support by a buttress; prop up.
- : to give encouragement or support to.

nounbrace, support

Synonyms

Balustrades had fallen, gargoyles had broken, flying buttresses were blackened and worn away by pollution.
Within minutes, we were picking our way across buttressed tree roots and hopscotching across rivulets in the stream.
Negotiations can be buttressed by dramatic acts of (American) pragmatism.
And President Obama, buttressed by his newly discovered spine, has essentially said as much.
Now comes The Endgame: its 691 pages of narrative are buttressed by 68 pages of source notes.
Maybe it is his own reputation for rectitude, a reputation buttressed by the lack of scandals in his administration.
On the Little Douvre, their extremities were laid and buttressed upon the projections of rock.
To all appearance he was secure in his inheritance and buttressed against any peril.
And this evening, as usual, she slipped unobserved amongst the roses into the corner of the buttressed wall.
The church is of dressed stone and adobe, with massive walls heavily buttressed.
In the south the Big-Tree forests are in the areas that were effectively buttressed and shielded from ice-flows.