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propping (up)verbpresent participle of prop (up) to hold up or serve as a foundation forthese beams are propping up the entire roof bearing, bolstering, bracing, buttressing, carrying, shoring (up), staying, supporting, sustaining, undergirding, underpinning, upholding steadying, trussing, underlying to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an endinvariably his strong religious faith props him up in times of crisis abetting, aiding, assisting, backing, backstopping, helping, supporting advancing, easing, facilitating, forwarding, fostering, furthering, launchingchampioning, endorsing(also indorsing), patronizing, promoting, sponsoringattending, caring (for), comforting, ministering (to), succoringsustainingbolstering, boosting, buttressing, reinforcing(also reenforcing)advising, counseling(or counselling), guiding, mentoring, nurturingbailing out, delivering, rescuing, savingemboldening, encouraging, hearteningbenefiting(also benefitting), favoring, obliging, profiting, serving bearing a hand, standing one in good stead hindering balking, barring, blocking, constraining, hampering, handicapping, holding back, impeding, inhibiting, obstructing, restraining, stranglingbaffling, foiling, frustrating, inconveniencing, interfering, opposing, sabotaging, thwartingdeserting, disappointing, failing, letting downdiscouraging, dishearteningrepressing, retarding, stifling, straitening, stuntingdamaging, harming, hurting, injuring |