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bolstered

bolstered is the simple past and past participle of bolster.

Meaning of bolster

Verb

bolster (third-person singular simple present bolsters, present participle bolstering, simple past and past participle bolstered)

  1. (figuratively, often, transitive) To brace, reinforce, secure, or support.
    • Puget also teamed up with Matt Hyde (Deftones, Slayer) to co-produce the record, which was another smart move: Together, the pair ensures that AFI (The Blood Album)'s arrangements are streamlined, but bolstered by just the right amount of atmospheric texture.2017 January 20, Annie Zaleski, “AFI sounds refreshed and rejuvenated on its 10th album, AFI (The Blood Album)”, in The Onion AV Club

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Adjective

bolstered (not comparable)

  1. padded
    • What fifty men dared not have done, one woman did! a painted, patched, fucused, periwigged, bolstered, Charybdis, cannibal, Megaera, Lamia!1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!

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Phrases with bolstered

Questions about bolstered

What does bolstered mean?
Bolstered means padded.
What is bolstered the simple past and past participle of?
Bolstered is the simple past and past participle of bolster.
What part of speech is bolstered?
Bolstered is an adjective.

Words near bolstered in the dictionary

  1. Bolstads
  2. bolster
  3. bolster up
  4. bolster wagon
  5. bolster wagons
  6. bolstered
  7. bolstered up
  8. bolsterer
  9. bolsterers
  10. bolstereth
  11. bolstering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bolstered (page history and authors); bolster (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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