Definitions for prop up
prop up

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1. prop up, prop, shore up, shoreverb

   support by placing against something solid or rigid

   "shore and buttress an old building"

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1. prop upverb

   To support with, or as if with, a prop.

Matched Categories

1. • Support

Anagrams for prop up »

1. upprop

How to pronounce prop up?

1. Alex

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   Daniel

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   Mia

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of prop up in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of prop up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of prop up in a Sentence

1. Ian Kernohan:

   We had coordinated central bank action at the height of the crisis but I don't think we are at that stage now, is it the central banks' job to prop up markets all the time? Are we in a crisis, or are we just having a scare from weak China manufacturing data?

2. Brett McGurk:

   I have not seen a significant change in Iranian behavior ... They are primarily working to prop up the Assad regime.

3. Carl Sagan:

   Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

4. Deshawn Yeldell:

   People hate to see you on high vibes doing something positive or something you love, especially if you’re doing it better than them or the people they prop up with their support. -MillYentei

5. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

   You know this is part of a pattern that the right and the far-right and, frankly, the President is consistent with, he doesn't have another woman, Hillary Clinton or whoever else, to vilify anymore so they need to find another woman to kind of prop up and become a lightning rod.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=prop up
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Prop_Up