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1. The land along the edge of a body of water
    
2. A beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support
   - shoring

1. Serve as a shore to
   "The river was shored by trees"
    
2. Arrive on shore
   "The ship shored in Pearl Harbor";
   - land, set ashore
    
3. Support by placing against something solid or rigid
   "shore and buttress an old building";
   - prop up, prop, shore up
    
4. Support, help or boost something that would otherwise be weak or fail
   "try to shore up the nuclear deal"; "shore up the value of the dollar";
   - prop up, shore up

Sounds like: shoes, shore, sure, psha

Derived forms: shored, shores, shoring

Type of: arrive, beam, border, bound, come, formation, geological formation, get, hold, hold up, support, sustain

Encyclopedia: Shore, Richard