Definitions For Buttress

noun

  • A support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building
  • A structure built against a wall in order to support or strengthen it

verb

  • Make stronger or defensible
  • Reinforce with a buttress
  • To support, strengthen, or defend (something)

Is Buttresses a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
12
Words with Friends
14

The word Buttress is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Buttress in a Sentence

  • The mother had always been the buttress of our family in trying times
  • After the wall collapsed, the construction company agreed to rebuild it with a buttress
  • The treaty will buttress the cause of peace.
  • The theory has been buttressed by the results of the experiment.

Synonyms for Buttress

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