Synonyms for shore up
shore up

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1. prop up, prop, shore up, shoreverb

   support by placing against something solid or rigid

   "shore and buttress an old building"

   Synonyms:
   set ashore, shore, land, prop up, prop

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1. shore up

   Synonyms:
   prop, support, prop up

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1. John Boehner:

   In order to garner Republican support for new revenues, the president must be willing to reduce spending and shore up the entitlement programs that are the primary drivers of our debt.

2. Chris Turner:

   Here in Austin, what the Republicans did was pack as many Democrats into as few districts as possible in order to shore up as many other Republican districts as they could to cement their majority in the Texas congressional delegation for years to come.

3. Mark Warner:

   While I choose to support the deal, I am not satisfied with it as a final measure and will support efforts to shore up its weaker points.

4. David Shulkin:

   What we can't afford to do is have yet another crisis -- a health care financing crisis -- during the time of a pandemic, if anything, we should be taking actions to shore up the solvency of Social Security Administration and not be offering solutions that are going to make that problem much more critical.

5. Greg McBride:

   There are not a lot of economic bright spots right now, but one is that with record low mortgage rates homeowners can refinance their mortgages and generate meaningful monthly savings. That savings can shore up their finances and they will end up pumping it back into the economy. Why would you dampen that ?