shoring up

1. 1.

   the act of propping up with shores

   Synonymsshoringpropping up

   Broadersupport

Questions about shoring up

What does shoring up mean?

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

What is another word for shoring up?

Close synonyms include shoring, propping 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 shoring up a common word?

shoring 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.