What is "shoring up"

Usage examples of "shoring up".

The old fool of an Abbot and his stupid devoted band of creatures were all outside, shoring up gatehouses, drilling, fetching, carrying and generally being good and useful.

But instead of shoring up the tunnel with iron-supported timbers and lining it with masonry-hardened brick, the walls of the tunnel were composed of mud-and-straw bricks similar to those used to construct a house.

They're still shoring up the hole it left in the wall, but the floor shows not the smallest chip or crack.

It felt like a process of allaying, of shoring up somethingagainst what, Mary didn't know.

To preclude this eventuality, several of the passengers were shoring up the edges of the flange near the jacks with plastic bags filled with earth.

It felt like a process of allaying, of shoring up something—.

He was shoring up memories of better times, against a grim future.

We took a few hits in the market when he disappeared but I authorized a publicist to work on shoring up our image of being solid and it seems to have worked.

Most of Pingol's company held their ground and concentrated on shoring up the mind-shield, which steadied into a translucent bubble-section three or four metres high that hovered just ahead of the forward ranks.

And Triunfador obtained, in a way that his father thought best not to inquire about, some lumber for shoring up the falling sides of the building.

She told stories about Xavier's military prowess, his work shoring up the defenses of other human worlds, and his desperate action during the cymek attack on Zimia that had saved Salusa Secundus.