What is "buttressed"

Usage examples of "buttressed".

The previously deleterious mutation for hairlessness became an asset in the water, buttressed by subcutaneous fat.

So in the end the five main tribes focused on their territories, and buttressed the great leading cities of Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Gath, and Ekron.

Leda, in contrast, has not yet learned that that beauty must sometimes be buttressed by determination and cunning.

In fact, the most important center of the village was additionally shielded by a water-filled ditch buttressed by two parallel wooden walls.

It consisted principally of cavalry, buttressed by a core of Chinese engineers whose arsenal of siege weapons was devastating, such as catapults hurling flaming naphtha bombs.

He pushed her to the ground, deep in the green-black shadow of the buttressed roots of an enormous tree.

The bottom of the trunk flared into buttressed roots, forming enormous wings that wrapped around her almost like arms.

He pointed, and she turned to see another of those huge, funny trees with the enormous buttressed roots.

The learning he had mastered in his studies with the Elves buttressed and enabled him, a bedrock on which to build the summoning magic.

They traveled that first day through the hill country that buttressed the river's north bank, winding their way steadily closer to the forests of the Anar.

Back they pulled on the heavy, greased ropes concealed in the grasses, and dozens of barricades buttressed with sharpened stakes lifted to meet the rush.

In the Giant’s cavernous eyes and buttressed forehead, he saw the import of the comment.

Knots of emotion jumped and bunched across his buttressed forehead, and his eyes flared with a dangerous enthusiasm.

In the Giant's cavernous eyes and buttressed forehead, he saw the import of the comment.

The Giant's lips smiled, but his eyes were hard under his buttressed brows, and his forehead's scar shone vividly.