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shoring (up)verbpresent participle of shore (up) to hold up or serve as a foundation fora highway tunnel shored up by massive columns of concrete bearing, bolstering, bracing, buttressing, carrying, propping (up), staying, supporting, sustaining, undergirding, underpinning, upholding steadying, trussing, underlying to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)used an avalanche of statistics to shore up his claim that the state's economy is in fine shape backing, bolstering, buttressing, corroborating, reinforcing(also reenforcing), substantiating, supporting confirming, establishing, proving, verifyingaffirming, avouching, validating undercutting, undermining, weakening |