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Another word for prop

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Noun

  1. A means or device that keeps something erect, stable, or secure

    See also:

    support

Verb

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

    See also:

    help

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Another word for prop

Noun
  1. See also:

    post

© 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

  • How many prop skeletons could there be in the small town of Ouray?

  • He recognized that the fault of the government lay in the fact that it did not govern, and he deplored that his own function, in a decadent age, was but " to prop up mouldering institutions."

  • No. Not unless you want to talk to yourself while I prop up a zombie who won't hear a word you're saying.

  • "Prop her up," Wynn snapped.

  • 610 B.e.) Greek mercenaries had been used to prop Pharaoh's throne.

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