0 present participle of buoy --
2 to make someone feel happier or more confident about a situation: --
3 to support something and make it more successful: --
It looks as though the creek is not buoying me up but dragging me down.
What is the good of buoying up the hopes of the agricultural industry which bounds up to heaven one day only to fall even lower the next day?
I am assured by the fishermen that buoying is not the answer and that the removal of the wreck from the channel is the only solution.
They are always buoying themselves up with the old story that the tide will turn.
There may be costs of providing common-user moorings and of dredging, lighting and buoying.
It is no use buoying ourselves up with the idea that we can make gestures.
Its activities include the supervision of the engineering works, dredging, buoying and the marking of channels.
I was interested to hear what he said about buoying up the criminal justice system after the death of the 18 judges.
