shored up
Gave structural support
Shored up means reinforced or supported something at risk of collapse or failure.
The literal sense involves propping up a structure with timber or other supports: Workers shored up the crumbling foundation.
More often figurative, describing efforts to strengthen something weakening: The central bank shored up the currency, She shored up her argument with additional evidence.
- propSupport or stage item
- propped upSupported from beneath
- bolsteredStrengthened or supported
- buttressedStrengthened with external bracing
- underpinnedGave fundamental support to
supported · reinforced · anchored · consolidated · braced · backed · strengthened · built up · sustained · held together · fortified · steadied · safeguarded · upheld · secured · undergirded · stabilized · salvaged