Meaning of shore up | Babel Free

Definitions

To reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure).

figuratively, often, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“They hastened outside between storms to shore up the damaged fence.”

“He needed something bold and dramatic to shore up his failing candidacy.”

“I shored up a geranium with earth after it had flopped over.”

“This answer fell just at the right time and just in the right place, to save the poor unstable young man from changing his political complexion once more. He had been on the point of beginning to totter again, but this prop shored him up and kept him from floundering back into democracy and re-renouncing aristocracy.”

“[Harry] Redknapp was determined to secure victory and sent on Younes Kaboul and star playmaker Luka Modric to shore things up.”

“However, in 1998, the Argentinean-American physicist Juan Maldacena published a paper that shored up the idea that we live in a ‘holographic universe’ and set the world of physics alight.”

“[Liz Truss] had cleared her diary and called off a planned visit amid desperate attempts to shore up her premiership, before speaking to Braverman at a meeting in the House of Commons, sources said.”

“President Trump rolled out a $12 billion bailout for struggling farmers on Monday as he looks to shore up the finances of some of his most loyal supporters whose financial fortunes have been hurt by his trade war.”

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