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What does buttress mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word buttress? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
  2. Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
  3. (botany) A buttress-root.
  4. (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.
  5. (figuratively) Anything that supports or strengthens.
Verb
  1. To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
  2. To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.
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