Stutzen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abet verb To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.
- buttress noun A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- corroborate verb To support or confirm a claim with additional evidence.
- crop noun A plant grown and harvested for food, feed, or other economic use.
- curtail verb To cut something short or reduce it, especially something that would otherwise have continued at its full extent.
- nipple noun The small raised point on a breast through which a mother's milk can flow.
- pare verb To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
- prop noun An object used to support something, or to keep it in place.
- prune noun A dried plum.
- stub noun A short remaining piece of something after the main part has been used, cut, or removed.
- support noun Help, encouragement or resources given to someone or something.
- sustain verb To keep something going or in existence over time.
- trim verb To cut away excess from something to neaten it.
- underpin verb To support from below with props or masonry.
Senses
Stutzen is used for these senses in English:
- abet (transitive) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action). [late 16th c.]
- buttress To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
- buttress (figurative, by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence.
- corroborate (transitive) To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.
- crop (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
- curtail (transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate.
- nipple (plumbing, chiefly, US) A short tube threaded at both ends, used as a connector. [from 19th c.]
- pare (transitive, often, with down or back) To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.
abet — full definition
- verb To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.
- verb To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action).
- verb To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
- verb To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.
buttress — full definition
- noun A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- noun Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- noun A buttress root.
- noun A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.