bolster

bol·ster  (blstr)

n.

A long narrow pillow or cushion.

tr.v. bol·stered, bol·ster·ing, bol·sters

1. To support or prop up with or as if with a long narrow pillow or cushion.

2. To buoy up or hearten: Visitors bolstered the patient's morale.

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[Middle English, from Old English; see bhelgh- in Indo-European roots.]

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bolster·er n.

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bolster

Verb

to support or strengthen: the government were unwilling to bolster sterling

Noun

1. a long narrow pillow

2. any pad or support [Old English]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	bolster - a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows long pillow pillow - a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person
Verb	1.	bolster - support and strengthen; "bolster morale" bolster up reenforce, reinforce - make stronger; "he reinforced the concrete"
	2.	bolster - prop up with a pillow or bolster prop, prop up, shore up, shore - support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building"
	3.	bolster - add padding to; "pad the seat of the chair" pad fill, fill up, make full - make full, also in a metaphorical sense; "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride"

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bolster

verb support, help, aid, maintain, boost, strengthen, assist, prop, reinforce, hold up, cushion, brace, shore up, augment, buttress, buoy up, give a leg up to (informal)

Translations

bolster [ˈbəulstəʳ] n → travesero, cabezal m

bolster up vt → reforzar;

(fig) → alentar

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bolster [ˈbəulstəʳ] n → traversin m

bolster up vt → soutenir

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bolster [ˈbəulstəʳ] n → Nackenrolle f

bolster up vt → stützen;

(case) → untermauern

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bolster [ˈbəulstəʳ] n → capezzale m

bolster up vt → sostenere