buttressed 的 2 个定义
- 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.
- to support by a buttress; prop up.
- to give encouragement or support to.
buttressed 近义词
brace, support
support, bolster
更多buttressed例句
- 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.