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English
Adjective
buttressed (comparative more buttressed, superlative most buttressed)
- Having buttresses or supports.
Only the buttressed outer walls still stood.
1918, W B Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: 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.
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Verb
buttressed
- simple past and past participle of buttress