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Another word for bolster

Verb

  1. To keep from yielding or failing during stress or difficulty

    2. See also:

    help

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Another word for bolster

Verb
    2. See also:

    support

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Our internet was so slow we had to get an extender in order to bolster our poor home wi-fi.

  • Her presence would bolster his weak will.

  • Deidre fled to it, needing something to bolster the defenses that were dropping too fast.

  • We would need to recall the armies from the south to bolster our numbers.

  • Prince Andrew answered all his questions reluctantly but reasonably, and then said he wanted a bolster placed under him as he was uncomfortable and in great pain.

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