buttressed

English

Adjective

buttressed (comparative more buttressed, superlative most buttressed)

1. Having buttresses or supports.

   Only the buttressed outer walls still stood.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] 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.

Derived terms

• unbuttressed

Verb

buttressed

1. simple past and past participle of buttress