shore up

• Verbo frasal que significa apoyar, reforzar o fortalecer algo, especialmente un sistema, argumento o estructura, para evitar que falle o se derrumbe.

A phrasal verb meaning to support, strengthen, or reinforce something, especially a system, argument, or structure, to prevent failure or collapse.

incontable · transitivo · phrasal, separable

1. formal

   To support or strengthen something that is weak or in danger of failing.

   apuntalar, reforzar

   • The government is trying to shore up the economy.
   • They used sandbags to shore up the riverbank.
   • The company needs to shore up its finances.

   Sinónimosbolsterbracebuttressprop upreinforcestrengthensupportunderpin

   Antónimosdestabilizeerodesapundermineweaken

2. Reinforce physicallyformal

   To prop up or reinforce a structure to prevent collapse.

   Apuntalar

   • Workers shored up the old building with steel beams.
   • They shored up the tunnel walls to prevent a cave-in.
   • The miners shored up the roof of the mine shaft.

   Sinónimosbracebuttresspropreinforcestrengthensupportunderpin

   Antónimosdestabilizeerodesapundermineweaken

Verbo baseshore