propping up

1. 1.

   the act of propping up with shores

   Synonymsshoringshoring up

   Broadersupport

Questions about propping up

What does propping up mean?

propping up means "the act of propping up with shores".

What is another word for propping up?

Close synonyms include shoring, shoring up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is propping up a common word?

propping up is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.