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buttressingverbpresent participle of buttress to hold up or serve as a foundation fora brace buttressed the wall bearing, bolstering, bracing, carrying, propping (up), shoring (up), staying, supporting, sustaining, undergirding, underpinning, upholding steadying, trussing, underlying to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)a mass of circumstantial evidence buttresses the prosecutor's case backing, bolstering, corroborating, reinforcing(also reenforcing), shoring (up), substantiating, supporting confirming, establishing, proving, verifyingaffirming, avouching, validating undercutting, undermining, weakening |