Thesaurus / buttress
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Definitions are, most often, ornaments of the understanding rather than its buttresses.
THE SURPRISINGLY ELUSIVE DEFINITION OF ‘LIFE’JACOB BROGANMARCH 26, 2021WASHINGTON POSTProfiting by this, Benjy quietly moved away round a colossal buttress of the berg, and took refuge in an ice-cave.
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNEIt was an outside one, massive as a buttress, and Harry was building it well and truly, for it was the essential of the house.
MUSHROOM TOWNOLIVER ONIONSFrom the buttress foot a sheep-walk goes along the scarp—see, you can follow it from here in the dry grass.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, VOLUME XXIROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAnd drawing his cutlass from his belt, Michael bounded round the buttress behind which the young girl had promised to wait.
MICHAEL STROGOFFJULES VERNEPerhaps we shall be able to walk round into another cwm on the far side of North-west buttress.
MOUNT EVEREST THE RECONNAISSANCE, 1921CHARLES KENNETH HOWARD-BURYThere is a buttress a quarter of the way from each end, on which houses were still standing.
FLORENCE AND NORTHERN TUSCANY WITH GENOAEDWARD HUTTONThe portion of an arch visible above, acts as a buttress to the tower arches.
BELL'S CATHEDRALS: THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CARLISLEC. KING ELEYBetween each stall is a small buttress beginning at the capital and finishing somewhat beneath the top of the large pinnacle.
BELL'S CATHEDRALS: THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CARLISLEC. KING ELEYGuapo, in front of the mule, now ran forward upon the ledge, and looked around the buttress of rock.
POPULAR ADVENTURE TALESMAYNE REIDWORDS RELATED TO BUTTRESS
- adds fuel to fires
- adds to
- back up
- beefs up
- bolsters
- boosts
- builds up
- buttresses
- carries
- emphasizes
- energizes
- enlarges
- fortifies
- hardens
- heats up
- hypes
- increases
- lends a hand
- multiplies
- picks up
- pillars
- props
- props up
- punches up
- shores up
- soups up
- stands up for
- stiffens
- stresses
- strokes
- supplements
- supports
- sustains
- toughens
- underlines
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