Crossword-Solution: BUTTRESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Buttress | n. | A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry. |
| Buttress | n. | Anything which supports or strengthens. |
| Buttress | v. t. | To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly. |
We have 56 clues for the answer “BUTTRESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| supports the wall of a building | 1 answer |
| "Flying" architectural support | 1 answer |
| flying buttress | 1 answer |
| counterfort | 1 answer |
| Supporting wall structure. | 1 answer |
| Make stronger or defensible | 1 answer |
| Support firmly. | 1 answer |
| Structure that supports a wall | 1 answer |
| Strengthening structure. | 1 answer |
| DAM, type of | 4 answers |
| Shore (up) | 6 answers |
| Supporting structure | 8 answers |
| piling | 9 answers |
| Crutch | 12 answers |
| Mainstay | 13 answers |
| substratum | 15 answers |
| origination | 18 answers |
| truss | 19 answers |
| Benefaction. | 19 answers |
| MAKE position secure | 20 answers |
| underpinning | 23 answers |
| anneal | 24 answers |
| homework | 25 answers |
| grounding | 26 answers |
| Bear up? | 28 answers |
| bulwark | 28 answers |
| Arrangements | 30 answers |
| infrastructure | 30 answers |
| cornerstone | 30 answers |
| Pier | 32 answers |
| ___ column | 32 answers |
| Strut | 34 answers |
| prop | 35 answers |
| Leg. | 37 answers |
| uphold | 38 answers |
| Gird | 39 answers |
| substructure | 42 answers |
| ABUTMENT | 42 answers |
| devising | 43 answers |
| MAKE stronger | 48 answers |
| Pile | 52 answers |
| MAKE less flexible | 53 answers |
| MAKE firm | 54 answers |
| Backing | 54 answers |
| bolster | 56 answers |
| BRACE ___ | 59 answers |
| reinforce | 63 answers |
| CARRY ___ | 64 answers |
| make fast | 65 answers |
| Fortify | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with BUTTRESS (5)
Bathsheba skirted the buttress, and beheld the hole and the tomb, its delicately veined surface splashed and stained just as Troy had seen it and left it two hours earlier.
Holding the girl at arm’s length in one hand, Number One tore the battling Chinaman from him with the other, and lifting him bodily above his head, hurled him stunned and bleeding against the bole of a giant buttress tree.
Show me your cousin’s path.’ ‘He would go sure-foot along that little ledge,’ said Nance, pointing as she spoke; ‘then out through the breach and down by yonder buttress.
Noo choose ye out a walie hammer; About the knottit buttress clam’er; Alang the steep roof stoyt an’ stammer, A gate mis-chancy; On the aul’ spire, the bells’ hie cha’mer, Dance your bit dancie.
The only method of attack that he found successful was to locate sheep with his glass, work round to windward of them, and then, getting behind a ridge or buttress, crawl like a lizard to a vantage point.
Quotes with BUTTRESS (3)
What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.
A person must face the root cause of their relentless personal pain. Irrespective of whatever bricks buttress our youthful personal philosophy, pain avoidance, and pain therapy are likely two of its foundation stones.
In populations experiencing trauma across a wide variety of settings, the portion of those experiencing ongoing PTSD is remarkably similar — one third. Ecclesiastes says woe to him who falls alone, but that the cord of THREE strands is not easily broken. Apparently deep in our human wiring is the resilience to be a buttress for those feeling overcome.
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Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1954–2024).