shore up

1. 1.

   support by placing against something solid or rigid

   “shore and buttress an old building”

   Synonymsprop uppropshore

   Broaderhold

   Narrowerbolster

Questions about shore up

What does shore up mean?

shore up means "support by placing against something solid or rigid".

What is another word for shore up?

Close synonyms include prop up, prop, shore. 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 shore up a common word?

shore up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.