Meanings (ES + gloss)
boterete • contrafuerte • estantal • estribo • machón
A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
It was decided, therefore, to build eight concrete buttresses from the new strengthening work to safeguard the general stability of the wall along the length where the greatest mov…
apoyo • refuerzo • sostén
Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
contrafuerte • estribo
A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
All that day they rode into broken land. The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons…
Crowell Buttresses, Dismal Buttress
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
apuntalar
To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
afianzar • corroborar
To support something or someone by supplying evidence.
Buttressed by elaborate account statements and a deep reservoir of trust from his investors and regulators, Mr. Madoff steered his fraud scheme safely through a severe recession in…
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