The Collaborative International Dictionary
Buoy \Buoy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buoyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Buoying.]
To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
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To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
Those old prejudices, which buoy up the ponderous mass of his nobility, wealth, and title.
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To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.
Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed.
--Darwin.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of buoy English)
Usage examples of "buoying".
Our ability to draw from that well, the eons we spent identifying, charting, and buoying the vortices between starfields, gave us the freedom to range and conquer the worlds of the Cluster.
She needed his arms around her taking the chill from her body, she needed his strength buoying her to brave the face of her monster.
And it seems only yesterday that you were buoying me up by telling me I'd never have to see him again.
No doubt he, like me, had been buoying himself up for years with the thought that we should never meet again and that, whatever brickbats life might have in store for him, he had at least got Bertram out of his system.
He loved his own vigorous, thrusting motion, and the violent impulse of the very cold water against his limbs, buoying him up.
The last thing she wanted to do was ask a favor from Tyler, but she couldn't forget how Jeb had always been there for her, drying her tears, buoying her spirits, soothing the damage her father's cruel words had done.