prop up

Verb

Meaning

support by placing against something solid or rigid

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

shore up prop shore back support take help rest base supported bear hold carry maintain build
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Antonyms

prevent daunt stop block cloud bore
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Hypernyms

support hold sustain hold up

Hyponyms

bolster

Examples

We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians. Stephen Harper

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama. Rush Limbaugh

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could. Andrew Ross Sorkin

The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased. John Mellencamp

I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement. Mark Cuban

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory then you can borrow money of them. Mark Twain

Close letter words and terms

prop root prop shaft prop sword prop up the bar prop vowel prop wash