English-French translations for shore up

• étançonner
• renforcer
  Renforcer les littoraux menacés. Shore up endangered coastlines.
  L'Union européenne doit maintenant, de toutes ses forces et à l'unisson, renforcer les conditions d'action de l'ONU. The European Union must now take a united stand and use all its powers to shore up the viability of the UN.
  Le souhait d'avoir une Constitution pour l'UE ne découle pas d'un besoin de la population, mais d'une volonté de renforcer les pouvoirs de l'élite. The desire to have a constitution for the EU does not come from the needs of the people but from the will to shore up the power of the elite.

Definition of shore up

• To reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure

Examples

• They hastened outside between storms to shore up the damaged fence.
• He needed something bold and dramatic to shore up his failing candidacy.
• I shored up a geranium with earth after it had flopped over

Related words

• off-shore supply vessel
• off-shore support vessel
• offshore supply vessel
• offshore support vessel