buttress vs vitrify

buttress

noun
  • A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it. 

  • Anything that supports or strengthens. 

  • A buttress-root. 

  • Anything that serves to support something; a prop. 

  • A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock. 

verb
  • To support something or someone by supplying evidence. 

  • To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress. 

vitrify

verb
  • To convert into glass or a glass-like substance by heat and fusion. 

  • To be converted into glass, especially through heat. 

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