Buttress in spanish
Contrafuerte
pronunciation: koʊntɹ̩ɑfueɹ̩te part of speech: noun, verb
pronunciation: koʊntɹ̩ɑfueɹ̩te part of speech: noun, verb
In gestures
buttress1 = apoyo, refuerzo.
Example: They used schools as a buttress of a caste system designed to subordinate blacks socially, to cramp them economically under a rigid job ceiling.buttress2 = apoyar, respaldar, reforzar.
Example: Authors were often buttressed in their novel writing by other pieces of freelance writing.more:
» buttress + an argument = respaldar un argumento.
Example: Arguments that main entries are not needed in online catalogs are buttressed by the observation that abandoning them would result in substantial economic gain = Los argumentos de que las entradas principales no se necesitan en los catálogos en línea están respaldados por la observación de que si las abandonamos se obtendría un importante beneficio económico.» buttress + Posesivo + case = defender + Posesivo + argumento, apoyar + Posesivo + argumento, respaldar un argumento.
Example: Genocide theorists deploy a welter of sociological facts and half-facts to buttress their case.» buttress + Posesivo + claim = respaldar una opinión.
Example: She must be prepared to buttress her claims that people want more say, and that power is becoming more widely dispersed.