English-Spanish translations for buttress

• contrafuerte
• estribo
• afianzar
• apoyo
• apuntalar
• boterete
• corroborar
• estantal
• machón
• refuerzo
  El refuerzo del enfoque bilateral únicamente acentuará la dependencia de los países pobres de la Unión Europea. Strengthening the bilateral approach will only buttress poor countries' dependence on the EU.
  Por lo tanto, el actual acuerdo constituye en este sentido un refuerzo económico de estas regiones y da, además, un impulso estructural al sector pesquero europeo tan hostigado últimamente. In that sense, this agreement buttresses the economy in those regions and also gives a structural impulse to the European fisheries industry, which is already under strain.
• sostén

Definition of buttress

• A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it
• A buttress-root
• Anything that supports or strengthens
• To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress

Examples

• Crowell Buttresses, Dismal Buttress, Hourglass Buttress, Kardam Buttress, Seven Buttresses thumb|right|Milestone Buttress on w:Tryfan|Tryfan. The direct route is highlighted.

Related words

• buttressing
• buttress root
• flying buttress