Shore Up

Definition: Shore Up

Shore Up

Verb

1. Support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Mining

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Synonyms: Shore Up

Support

Support, bear, carry, hold, sustain, shoulder; hold up, back up, bolster up, shore up; uphold, upbear; prop; under prop, under pin, under set; riprap; bandage.

Crosswords: Shore Up

Economic History

Afghanistan

Following the 1979 invasion, the Soviets augmented their large aid commitments to shore up the Afghan economy and rebuild the Afghan military. (references)

Sri Lanka

The repurchase rate was increased several times during the year in a bid to shore up the rupee, and led to further increases in interest rates. (references)

Nigeria

During 2001 the CBN also issued high interest "certificates of deposit" ranging from 90 to 180 days in a bid to mop up the excess naira liquidity in the economy and shore up the naira exchange rate. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Czech

podepřít (brace, buttress, corroborate, prop, prop up, stake, support, underlay, underpin). (various references)

Danish

afstive (to shore up, to stay, to strut). (various references)

Dutch

stempelen (mark, stamp), schoren (abet, support, sustain). (various references)

French

étayer (shore). (various references)

German

stützen (back, back up, base on, bolster, brace, carry, enforce, hold up, lean, pillow, precipitate, prop up, reinforce, shore, support, sustain, to base on, to support, to sustain, underpin, uphold), abstützen (prop up, shore, support), abstürzen (crash, drop away, fall, fall away, plummet, shore). (various references)

Greek 

στυλώνω (plant, suport). (various references)

Hungarian

dúcol (to brace, to prop, to shore up, to stanchion), alátámaszt (bear out, confirm, corroborate, to bolster up, to chock, to chock up, to confirm, to corroborate, to shore up, to stanchion, to strengthen, to strut, to support, to underpin), aládúcol (buttress, to pole, to shore up, to underpin, underpin). (various references)

Indonesian

mengganjal (prop up, wedge in, wedge tight). (various references)

Italian

puntellare (back up, prop, shore, support), mantenere (abide by, earn one's living, entertain, hold, keep, maintain, preserve, support, sustain), consolidare (clamp, consolidate, fasten, fortify, steady). (various references)

Pig Latin

oreshay upay

Portuguese

fortalecer (arm, beef up, brace, build up, confirm, consolidate, fortify, invigorate, nerve, reinforce, stiffen, strengthen, toughen), assegurar (affirm, asseverate, assure, enlist, ensure, insure, preserve, secure, state, vouch). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podupreti (bolster, brace, buttress, prop up, shore, stay, support, truss, underlay, underpin). (various references)

Spanish

escorar (heel over, list, shore), apuntalar (brace, pin, pin up, prop, prop up, shore, truss, underpin). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: uphroes.

-1 letter: ephors, hopers, houser, ouphes, poseur, posher, pusher, uphroe, uprose.

-2 letters: ephor, euros, heros, hoers, hoper, hopes, horse, hours, house, ouphe, ouphs, pores, poser, pours, prose, purse, repos, ropes, roues, roups, rouse, shoer, shore, spore, sprue, super, usher.

-3 letters: epos, eros, euro, hero, hers, hoer, hoes, hope, hops, hose, hour, hues, opes, opus, ores.

+1 letter: euphroes, pushover, superhot.

+2 letters: euphorias, ploughers, poorhouse, pushovers, superhero, supershow, upholders, upholster.

+3 letters: coryphaeus, euphorbias, eutrophies, poorhouses, pothunters, powerhouse, rhizopuses, sunporches, supermacho, supershows, turophiles, upholsters, upholstery.

+4 letters: champertous, copublisher, cowpunchers, euphoriants, hemipterous, homopterous, housekeeper, houseparent, houseperson, neutrophils, outpreaches, porterhouse, powerhouses, promethiums, pseudomorph, reupholster, springhouse, sulphureous, supergrowth, superheroes, supermachos, superschool, supersmooth, upholstered, upholsterer, xerophilous.

+5 letters: ailurophiles, ailurophobes, archesporium, autographies, autotrophies, auxotrophies, consumership, copublishers, executorship, housekeepers, housepainter, houseparents, housepersons, hyperarousal, necrophagous, neuropathies, peritrichous, phosphoruses, photoreduces, pneumographs, porterhouses, prothalluses, pseudomorphs, reupholsters, springhouses, supergrowths, superheroine, superschools, upholsterers, upholsteries, upholstering, urethroscope.