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buttressed

buttressed adjective: having buttresses or supports. Also the simple past and past participle of buttress.

Adjective

buttressed (comparative more buttressed, superlative most buttressed)

  1. Having buttresses or supports.
    • Only the buttressed outer walls still stood.
    • […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

Also used as

buttressed is also the simple past and past participle of buttress.

Forms of buttressed

comparativemore buttressed
superlativemost buttressed

Words formed from buttressed

Questions about buttressed

What does buttressed mean?
Buttressed means having buttresses or supports.
What part of speech is buttressed?
Buttressed is an adjective.

Words near buttressed in the dictionary

  1. buttress
  2. buttress root
  3. buttress roots
  4. buttress-root
  5. buttress-roots
  6. buttressed
  7. buttresses
  8. buttressing
  9. buttressless
  10. buttresslike
  11. Buttrey

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