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Buttressed
BUT'TRESSED
,Adj.
Definition 2024
buttressed
buttressed
English
Adjective
buttressed (comparative more buttressed, superlative most buttressed)
- Having buttresses or supports.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
- Only the buttressed outer walls still stood .
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Verb
buttressed
- simple past tense and past participle of buttress