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prop up
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Princeton's WordNet
prop up, prop, shore up, shoreverb
support by placing against something solid or rigid
"shore and buttress an old building"
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prop upverb
To support with, or as if with, a prop.
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prop up
To "prop up" generally refers to supporting, sustaining or preventing something or someone from falling, either physically - by putting an object underneath for support, or figuratively like providing financial or other forms of assistance. It can also mean to falsely maintain or boost something like prices or ratings, often through artificial means.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of prop up in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of prop up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of prop up in a Sentence
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
[A]n attempt byRussia and Iran to prop up Assad and try to pacify the population is just going to get them stuck in a quagmire. And it won’t work.
There's now 300,000 nearly dead in Syria because of Assad and now Putin is going in and teaming with the Iranians to prop up Assad, only Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton could mess up this foreign policy that badly.
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?
If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in, in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership.
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