SHORE UP Synonyms

• a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows

• support and strengthen

• prop up with a pillow or bolster

• add padding to

• a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building

• reinforce with a buttress

• make stronger or defensible

• make strong or stronger

• enclose by or as if by a fortification

• prepare oneself for a military confrontation

• add nutrients to

• add alcohol to (beverages)

• make stronger

• strengthen and support with rewards

• make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium

• support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace

• become stable or more stable

• make strong or stronger

• gain strength

• give a healthy elasticity to

• the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities

• aiding the cause or policy or interests of

• something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest

• a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission

• documentary validation

• the financial means whereby one lives

• supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation

• the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening

• a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts

• any device that bears the weight of another thing

• financial resources provided to make some project possible

• give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to

• support materially or financially

• be behind; approve of

• be the physical support of; carry the weight of

• establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

• adopt as a belief

• support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm

• argue or speak in defense of

• play a subordinate role to (another performer)

• be a regular customer or client of

• put up with something or somebody unpleasant

• a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling

• any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie

• a propeller that rotates to push against air

• support by placing against something solid or rigid

• the land along the edge of a body of water

• a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support

• serve as a shore to

• arrive on shore

• support by placing against something solid or rigid