buttressing Definition

strengthening, support, bolstering, reinforcing, undermining, fortifying, eroding, cementing, shoring, justifying, buoying, contradicting, discrediting, entrenching, subverting, boosting, legitimating, countering, solidifying, debunking, ossifying, augmenting, subordinating, propounding, propping, disabusing, underpinning, premising, furthering, enfeebling, refuting, weakening, perpetuating, deepening, undercut, vindicating, underlining, denting, underscoring, emboldening, reasserting, superseding, adducing, exacerbating, promulgating, reconstructing, sidetracking, corroding, validating, disproving, disentangling, sundering, spurring, enlarging, asserting, undergird, eliding, complementing, repudiating, rebutting, refashioning, hardening, emphasizing, ignoring, militarizing, reestablishing, overstretching, elevating, unraveling, reifying, subsuming, substantiating, undoing, amplifying, obfuscating, engorging, imperilling, heightening, restating, belie, burnishing, positing, foregrounding, souring, abjuring, unhinging, articulating, trumped, trumpeting, stoking, quashing, basing, miring, countervailing, enhancing, circumscribing, ensconcing, reexamining, infusing, rethinking,