unbolster

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ bolster.

Verb

unbolster (third-person singular simple present unbolsters, present participle unbolstering, simple past and past participle unbolstered)

1. (transitive) To remove the support from.
   • 1859, Gregory Thurston Bedell, Fellow Workers: Two Sermons, page 36:

     What can unbolster a man whose trust in his morality, or pious education, or social virtues, props him up to a fancied superiority to the provisions of the Gospel; what, but the truth, […] ?