What is "shore up"

Usage examples of "shore up".

Don't look at the shadows, don't imagine things, Shasa- She kept talking softly, trying to shore up her own courage, for the night was full of mystery and menace, and she had never realized until that moment how she had come to rely on the two old people.

Professors Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart of Warwick University were very generous with their time in providing expert advice to shore up my layman's guesswork.

But it was well enough known that there existed top-flight drivers who had crashed or who had suffered so much nervous and mental fatigue that they had become empty shells of their former selves, that there were among the current twenty-four Grand Prix drivers four or five who would never win a race again because they had no intention of ever trying to do so, who kept going only in order to shore up the facade of a now empty pride.

Frantic steps were taken to shore up the western banks, where erosion was rampant, but no sooner had bulkheads been installed at great cost than diverted currents began eating away at the northern shoreline, and the southern, too.

Ballaw helped to shore up the banks, and Rowanoak piled sand against the flimsy burnt cart.

The sea as it came in view was chaotic with wave-crests, and then as they turned a shoulder of the slope they could see the line of the Devil's Teeth running out from the shore up there to windward, and still hanging precariously from their jagged fangs was the wreck, black against the seething foam.

The sea as it came in view was chaotic with wavecrests, and then as they turned a shoulder of the slope they could see the line of the Devil's Teeth running out from the shore up there to windward, and still hanging precariously from their jagged fangs was the wreck, black against the seething foam.

And the procession of Chinese from the shore up to Tai Ping Shan had begun again.

For now, House Baenre retains its rightful place, but we must shore up our defenses against the day this peace will end.

In the afternoon they used their sticks to repair damaged sections of the domes, and to shore up weak ones.

She seemed older than her twelve years, and her touch did shore up his confidence again.