buttressed

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adjective

Having buttresses or supports.

“Only the buttressed outer walls still stood.”

UncommonScrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivebuttressed (comparative more buttressed, superlative most buttressed)

comparative more buttressed · superlative most buttressed

  1. Having buttresses or supports.

    Only the buttressed outer walls still stood.

    1 more example

    […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

    1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of buttress

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveheld up by braces or buttresses

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

buttressed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/buttressed

MLA

“buttressed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/buttressed. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “buttressed,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/buttressed.

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