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Meanings of buttressed in English

Held up by braces or buttresses.

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Examples for "braced"
1
Thus he braced our flagging spirits, speaking words of encouragement and hope.
Scarlet
2
Investors braced for other political and economic news in a busy week.
Reuters
3
Riot police and soldiers are on high alert braced for more violence.
The Irish Times
4
Officials said they were braced for further flooding in the industrialised state.
Reuters
5
We were prepared, braced, to answer questions in half a dozen tongues.
The new yorker
Usage of buttressed in English
1
They are believed because they present overwhelming quantities of mutually buttressed evidence.
The god delusion
2
Teflon-buttressed sutures plus pericardium patch achieved the successful repair of the rupture.
Pubmed
3
Alviro felt himself buttressed by the quiet strength of this vigorous youth.
Oh, You Tex!
4
The ceiling was rounded and intricately buttressed by a lattice of two-by-fours.
Shadowland
5
Against their arrogance her indignation buttressed her lineal with her mental superiority.
The Elect Lady
6
The English buttressed the French financially and in transportation and food-supplies.
The Audacious War
7
The G-20 framework will be buttressed by institutional changes currently underway.
Reuters
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They will be buttressed by the great crusade our space tapes have started.
Dogs of war
9
In 2014, the Pamela results were buttressed by data coming from the AMS.
Wired
10
Internal objections have been buttressed with external support from academics, researchers, and shareholders.
Wired
11
Yet the religious motive was buttressed by others more material and less disinterested.
Beginnings of the American People
12
This position is buttressed by gushing testimony of the nigh-on-miraculous powers of cannabis.
The Irish Times
13
Thus assured and buttressed, the centre of the Anglo-Dutch army was well posted.
Les Misérables
14
There is a line drawn into its interior, buttressed with stone.
Iron Council
15
A dozen vehicles are there, including a showily chrome-buttressed, four-wheel drive.
The Irish Times
16
Each one is buttressed by clips of various critics and jokesters.
Reuters
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United States of America
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