Antonyms for bolster
ˈboʊl stərbol·ster

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1. bolsternoun

   Synonyms:
   Dutch wife

2. bolsterverb

   To brace, reinforce, secure, or support.

   Synonyms:
   Dutch wife

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. bolster

   Antonyms:
   depress, dispirit, relax

   Synonyms:
   support, prop, help, aid, sustain, subsidize, patch, tinker, buoy

Matched Categories

1. • Fill
   • Prop Up
   • Reinforce

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1. bolster, long pillowverb

   a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows

   Synonyms:
   long pillow

2. bolster, bolster upverb

   support and strengthen

   "bolster morale"

   Synonyms:
   pad, bolster up

3. bolsterverb

   prop up with a pillow or bolster

   Synonyms:
   pad, bolster up

4. pad, bolsterverb

   add padding to

   "pad the seat of the chair"

   Synonyms:
   footslog, tramp, trudge, aggrandise, fill out, aggrandize, slog, blow up, embroider, embellish, lard, dramatise, pad, plod, dramatize, bolster up

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1. bolsternoun

   Synonyms:
   cushion, pad, support

2. bolsterverb

   Synonyms:
   prop up, support, maintain

How to use bolster in a sentence?

1. Peter Micek:

   App updates are essential to bolster the security of users and their data, and to comply with privacy laws and regulation, the burden falls squarely on Apple to justify blocking global updates to Telegram, a hugely popular messaging app.

2. Janna Anderson:

   Most experts believe that businesses and governments have little incentive to bolster privacy. This is, in part, because people have proven that they will give away personal information for something as small as a free cup of coffee.

3. Brock McEwen:

   At the moment, both the flaperon's appearance and the drift study which 'validates' it seem to be of a weirdness sufficiently ambiguous to bolster confidence in theories across the suspicion spectrum.

4. Fawn M. Brodie:

   Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.

5. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

   Let's block Iran's other aggression in the region, because they're doing everything. They're trying to encircle Israel with a noose of death, they're sending weapons to the Houthis. They're in Iraq. They're in Afghanistan. They're all over the place. In Yemen, of course. Let's bolster those forces to stand up to Iran's aggression in the region, and none is stronger, none is more reliable than Israel.

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