گزارش خطا در معنی کلمه 'shore up'

1 general:: Phrase(s): shore someone up Fig. to (figuratively) prop up or support someone. • Mary’s solid character and personality helped shore her up during her recent problems with the law. • Everyone co-operated to shore up John when his mother died.

2 general:: Phrase(s): shore something up to prop up or support something. • The fence fell over, so we shored it up with more posts. • The storm weakened the foundation of our house, and we had to have workers shore up the house.

3 general:: Support, prop, as in The new law was designed to shore up banks in danger of failure. This expression derives from the noun shore, meaning "prop," a beam or timber propped against a structure to provide support. The verb shore dates from 1340 and was first recorded in a figurative context in 1581.