0 a structure made of stone or brick that sticks out from and supports a wall of a building --
1 to build buttresses to support a building or structure: --
2 to give support to or strengthen something: --
He looked for things that would buttress the prosecution case and win a conviction.
3 a structure made of stone or brick that sticks out from and supports a wall of a building --
Competing claims to land and power were buttressed by appeals to the migration narratives.
The hegemony of elite male elders was buttressed by their ability to monopolize how such resources were acquired and disposed of.
Theories are constantly being pummeled, reshaped, sometimes buttressed, more often completely demolished by data.
Nonetheless, popular culture was also frequently co-opted, and buttressed, rather than challenged, the bourgeois social order.
Patterns of buttressing in tropical trees vary greatly within and among species.
Trees exhibiting buttresses were measured above the buttresses.
First, buttressed trees tended to collect more leaf litter at their bases, which in turn apparently contributed to their higher burn heights.
Trees with buttresses at 1.3 m were measured immediately above the buttresses.
