TODAY'S WORD-BUTTRESS

buttress

(noun, transitive verb)
[BUT-ris]

noun

1. a support, usually of stone or brick, for the wall of a building: "The wall had long been knocked down, but its buttress was still intact, standing strong without anything to support."

2. something resembling a buttress

3. something that gives support or reinforcement

transitive verb

4. to reinforce with a buttress; 'buttress the church'

5. to make stronger or defensible; 'buttress your thesis'