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."
Car seats prop up a newborn - Place your newborn in his car seat without the restraints.
No. Not unless you want to talk to yourself while I prop up a zombie who won't hear a word you're saying.
The bedspread was pulled back enough to prop up the pillow by the phone, but the bed had not been uncovered for sleeping.
Repeated expeditions from Sparta and Epirus tried in vain to prop up the decaying Greek states against the Lucanians and Bruttians; and when in 282 the Romans appeared in the Tarentine Gulf the end was close at hand.