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buttressedverbpast tense of buttress to hold up or serve as a foundation fora brace buttressed the wall bolstered, bore, braced, carried, propped (up), shored (up), stayed, supported, sustained, undergirded, underpinned, upheld steadied, trussed, underlay to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)a mass of circumstantial evidence buttresses the prosecutor's case backed, bolstered, corroborated, reinforced(also reenforced), shored (up), substantiated, supported confirmed, established, proved, verifiedaffirmed, avouched, validated undercut, undermined, weakened |