'Buttressed' definitions:
Definition of 'buttressed'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Held up by braces or buttresses [syn: braced, buttressed]
Definition of 'Buttressed'
From: GCIDE
- Buttress \But"tress\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buttressed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Buttressing.] To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly. [1913 Webster]
- To set it upright again, and to prop and buttress it up for duration. --Burke. [1913 Webster]