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PROP UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Support by placing against something solid or rigid
Example:
shore and buttress an old building
Synonyms:
prop; prop up; shore; shore up
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "prop up" is one way to...):
hold; hold up; support; sustain (be the physical support of; carry the weight of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "prop up"):
bolster (prop up with a pillow or bolster)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
