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"text": "They hastened outside between storms to shore up the damaged fence.",
"type": "example"
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"text": "He needed something bold and dramatic to shore up his failing candidacy.",
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"ref": "2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 – 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2021-08-30",
"text": "[Harry] Redknapp was determined to secure victory and sent on Younes Kaboul and star playmaker Luka Modric to shore things up.",
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"ref": "2018, Marcus Chown, Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand […], Michael O'Mara Books",
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"ref": "2022 October 19, “Suella Braverman forced to resign as UK home secretary”, in The Guardian",
"text": "[Liz Truss] had cleared her diary and called off a planned visit amid desperate attempts to shore up her premiership, before speaking to Braverman at a meeting in the House of Commons, sources said.",
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{
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"word": "подпи́рам"
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"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
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{
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{
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"word": "pönkittää"
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"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "tukea"
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{
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{
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"word": "alátámaszt"
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"word": "megerősít"
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{
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{
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"word": "kitámaszt"
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"word": "aládúcol"
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"word": "dúcol"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "megtámogat"
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"word": "puntellare"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "rincalzàre"
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{
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"word": "sostenere"
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{
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"word": "whakatete"
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"word": "ncarzà"
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{
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{
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "sustentar"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"word": "reforçar"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"word": "escorar"
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"tags": [
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],
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"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
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"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
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"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
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],
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"tags": [
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{
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"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "reforzar"
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"etymology_text": "From shore (“to provide with support”) + up. Shore is derived from Late Middle English shoren (“to prop, to support”) [and other forms], from shore (“a prop, a support”) [and other forms], + -en (suffix forming the infinitive form of verbs); while shore (noun) is from Middle Dutch schore, schare (“a prop, a stay”) (modern Dutch schoor), and Middle Low German schōre, schāre (“a prop, a stay; barrier; stockade”) (compare Old Norse skorða (“a prop, a stay”) (Norwegian skor, skorda)); further etymology unknown.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shores up",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "shoring up",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "shored up",
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "shored up",
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"past"
]
}
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}
],
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"pos": "verb",
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrasal verbs",
"English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
"English terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Middle Low German",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs",
"English verbs",
"Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations"
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"examples": [
{
"text": "They hastened outside between storms to shore up the damaged fence.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "He needed something bold and dramatic to shore up his failing candidacy.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "I shored up a geranium with earth after it had flopped over.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 – 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2021-08-30",
"text": "[Harry] Redknapp was determined to secure victory and sent on Younes Kaboul and star playmaker Luka Modric to shore things up.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Marcus Chown, Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand […], Michael O'Mara Books",
"text": "However, in 1998, the Argentinean-American physicist Juan Maldacena published a paper that shored up the idea that we live in a ‘holographic universe’ and set the world of physics alight.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 October 19, “Suella Braverman forced to resign as UK home secretary”, in The Guardian",
"text": "[Liz Truss] had cleared her diary and called off a planned visit amid desperate attempts to shore up her premiership, before speaking to Braverman at a meeting in the House of Commons, sources said.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)."
],
"links": [
[
"reinforce",
"reinforce"
],
[
"strengthen",
"strengthen"
],
[
"at risk",
"at risk"
],
[
"failure",
"failure"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, often figuratively) To reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)."
],
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{
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "embolster"
},
{
"word": "prop up"
},
{
"word": "underfoot"
},
{
"word": "undergird"
},
{
"word": "underpin"
},
{
"word": "underprop"
},
{
"word": "underset"
}
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"often",
"transitive"
]
}
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{
"ipa": "/ˈʃɔːɹ‿ʌp/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃɔɹ‿ʌp/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-au-shore up.ogg",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/En-au-shore_up.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "podpíram",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "подпи́рам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "podprá",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "подпра́"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "apuntalar"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "reforçar"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "sostenir"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "支撐"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhīchēng",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "支撑"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhīchí",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "支持"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "versterken"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "verstevigen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "pönkittää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "tukea"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "vahvistaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "accorer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "étançonner"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "renforcer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "abstützen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "stützen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "unterstützen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "verstärken"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "alátámaszt"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "megerősít"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "megtámaszt"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "támaszt"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "kitámaszt"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "kidúcol"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "aládúcol"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "dúcol"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "megtámogat"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "puntellare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "rincalzàre"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "sostenere"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "whakatete"
},
{
"code": "nap",
"lang": "Neapolitan",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "ncarzà"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "podpierać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "podeprzeć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "podtrzymywać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "podtrzymać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wspierać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wesprzeć"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "sustentar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "reforçar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "escorar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "poddérživatʹ",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "подде́рживать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podderžátʹ",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "поддержа́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "upročnjátʹ",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "упрочня́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "upróčitʹ",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "упро́чить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ukrepljátʹ",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "укрепля́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ukrepítʹ",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "укрепи́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podkrepljátʹ",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "подкрепля́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podkrepítʹ",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "подкрепи́ть"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "поду̀прије̄ти"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "подупрети"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "подр̀жати"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "podùprijēti"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "podupreti"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "podr̀žati"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "apuntalar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "reforzar"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "kám",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "ค้ำ"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "desteklemek"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)",
"word": "payanda vurmak"
}
],
"word": "shore up"
}
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