to shore
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7.1
- verb
- /ʃɔr/
- Specialized
:
apuntalar
- To ensure the building's safety, they decided to shore up the walls with steel beams.
- shore up support
- shore up a position
- help shore up
Perhaps all method is to shore up forgetfulness.
- Perhaps all method is to shore up forgetfulness.
- At least through the health related self-care, you can shore your body up for the good fight.
- And now we've got deep, deep fakes, shoring all that up and just spurious, you know, scientific articles shoring all that up.
- He's going to shore this up by saying others, other vices approach gently and increase without our noticing.
- The losses prompted the bank to announce a share sale to shore up its capital position.
- LDI funds will have additionally sold index linked gilts to shore up the cash in their funds.
- Well, we started using technology to shore up weaknesses in our own capabilities.
- So you could just shore up those areas of of your weaknesses.
- Where is it that we use the literature and the research where you're going to do desk research to sort of shore up one leg of what you're doing?
- And it's, it's the, the thing we need to shore up is the trustworthiness of indispensable institutions.
- And so until that gets shored up, all this stuff doesn't it's super hard to predict.
- So we would do one week of shooting and then they would go back and get repaired, shored up.
- And in developing those, it helps to shore up some of their weaknesses in a communal setting.
Examples
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The workers had to shore up the old roof with wooden supports to prevent it from collapsing.
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Before the storm, the construction team needed to shore the foundation to protect it from flooding.
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Come on, we gotta shore this up!
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See if you can shore it up.
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We'll have to shore every five feet.
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"We'll have to shore it up where we dig or take anything," she said.
Fiction book (1992) -
Newton brought in his own people to the key jobs, to help shore up his new position.
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Apparently, the builders had tried to shore up the roof at that point, with little success.
Fiction book (1992) -
The most urgent task of the next decade is to shore up democracy in these countries.
Academic text (2008) -
Finish shoring up the roof.
Synonyms
68
4.1
To hold something up by putting an object under or against it
54
3.6
Support something so it does not fall or fail
30
5.4
Support a weak thing so it does not fall or fail
4
4.8
To add padding to something to make it more comfortable
1
7.3
To add a strong support against a wall to keep it standing
To make something strong and supported from below with extra beams
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Jargon
People from the navy who keep order in ports and towns when sailors are on leave
- Specialized
A small pine tree that grows near the sea with twisted branches and can live in salty air
How Supportive
- Formal
14
6.3
99
3.9
- Specialized
1
7.3
- Specialized
47
7.1
54
3.6
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shore as a verb meaning 'support' comes from that same idea of a 'prop'. So to shore something up is to give it extra support or hold it steady.