shore up
Verb
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Verb
shore up
- (idiomatic, often, figurative) To reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure).
- They hastened outside between storms to shore up the damaged fence.
- He needed something bold and dramatic to shore up his failing candidacy.
- I shored up a geranium with earth after it had flopped over.
- French: renforcer
- German: abstützen, stützen, unterstützen, verstärken
- Italian: puntellare
- Russian: поддержа́ть
- Spanish: reforzar, apuntalar
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