Dictionary Entry
buttress
buttress is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.
- 2noun
Anything which supports or strengthens.
- 3transitive verb
To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
- 4noun
a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building
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- 5verb
make stronger or defensible
"buttress your thesis"
- 6verb
reinforce with a buttress
"Buttress the church"
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