The meaning of BUTTRESS is a projecting structure of masonry or wood for supporting or giving stability to a wall or building. How to use buttress in a sentence.

Buttresses are fairly common on more ancient (typically Gothic) buildings, as a means of providing support to act against the lateral (sideways) forces arising out of inadequately …

us / ˈbʌ·trəs / a structure made of stone or brick that sticks out from and supports a wall of a building (Definition of buttress from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge …

BUTTRESS definition: any external prop or support built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts, especially a projecting support built into or against the outside of a masonry …

To buttress an argument, system, or person means to give them support and strength.

Oct 7, 2025 · To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.

1. To support or reinforce with a buttress. 2. To sustain, prop, or bolster: "The author buttresses her analysis with lengthy dissections of several of Moore's poems" (Warren Woessner).