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bolstering up

bolstering up is the present participle and gerund of bolster up.

Meaning of bolster up

Verb

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

  1. (figuratively, transitive, usually) To bolster (something); to provide support to (something).
    • This ought to bolster up the case for intervention in the conflict.

Questions about bolstering up

What is bolstering up the present participle and gerund of?
Bolstering up is the present participle and gerund of bolster up.

Words near bolstering up in the dictionary

  1. bolstered up
  2. bolsterer
  3. bolsterers
  4. bolstereth
  5. bolstering
  6. bolstering up
  7. bolsterings
  8. bolsterless
  9. bolsterment
  10. bolsters
  11. bolsters up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bolstering up (page history and authors); bolster up (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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