1. The act of propping up with shores
   "The construction team began shoring up the damaged wall to prevent collapse";
   - shoring up, propping up
    
2. A beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support
   "Workers installed temporary shoring to stabilize the damaged building";
   - shore

1. Support by placing against something solid or rigid
   "shore and buttress an old building"; "They shored up the damaged wall with wooden beams";
   - prop up, prop, shore up
    
2. Serve as a shore to
   "The river was shored by trees"
    
3. Arrive on shore
   "The sailors shored after three months at sea";
   - land, set ashore
    
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

Derived forms: shorings

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

Encyclopedia: Shoring