Shore up meaning
Shore up is a phrasal verb with 2 meanings. One of them is to prevent a wall or building from collapsing by supporting it with wood, metal, or other construction material.
- Past simple
- shored up
- Past participle
- shored up
- -ing form
- shoring up
What shore up means
physically prevent collapseB2
To prevent a wall or building from collapsing by supporting it with wood, metal, or other construction material
Workers used timber beams to shore the damaged wall up.
1 more meaning of shore up is in the Retite app, with an example and a translation into your language.
More meanings in the appSimilar phrasal verbs
With up: wake up, pick up, grow up, line up, make up, set up, put up, go up, bring up, mess up.
Common questions
What does shore up mean?
It has 2 meanings. One of them is to prevent a wall or building from collapsing by supporting it with wood, metal, or other construction material. The other one, with an example and a translation into your language, is in the Retite app.
What is the past tense of shore up?
Shored up, which is also its past participle.
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