buttressed
/bˈʌtɹəst/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.30 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having buttresses or supports.
verb
simple past and past participle of buttress
Example Sentences
- "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 and left only a dull oppression of the spirit."
Inflected Forms
more buttressed (comparative)
most buttressed (superlative)