shore up

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verb

support by placing against something solid or rigid (Freq. 2)
- shore and buttress an old building
• Syn:
prop up, prop, shore
• Derivationally related forms:
shore (for: shore), shoring (for: shore), shoring up, prop (for: prop)
• Hypernyms:
hold, support, sustain, hold up
• Hyponyms:
bolster
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP