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Propping up   /prˈɑpɪŋ əp/   Listen
Propping up

noun
1.
The act of propping up with shores.  Synonyms: shoring, shoring up.






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"Propping up" Quotes from Famous Books



... was thinner, and the weight hurried his great legs down to the water.... Personally he would have waited for recapture. How he would have laughed at Lornievitch in that case. But this that he bore was under sentence of death in that camp. He regarded the river now, propping up his head under the burden. It was a swift devil of a stream, black from its winter borders and cold. He moved toward the broken bridge, hundreds of soldiers doing the same. But none ...
— Red Fleece • Will Levington Comfort

... whole life to propping up the crumbling Fads of Religion and Monarchy. But, for all that, the man has his gifts, and I'm burnin' ...
— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill

... Propping up his light on the floor, he emptied package after package of the powdered tobacco into the tunnel, and wafted it down towards the entrance with his jacket. Then with his knife he cut the lashings from the dead man's hands ...
— A Maid of the Silver Sea • John Oxenham



Words linked to "Propping up" :   support, supporting



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