Difference between Buttress and Buttressing

What is the difference between Buttress and Buttressing?

Buttress as a verb is to support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress. while Buttressing as a verb is to support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.

Buttress

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress. To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it. Anything that serves to support something; a prop. A buttress-root.

Buttressing

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.

We hope you now know whether to use Buttress or Buttressing in your sentence.

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