2. To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or
unusual effort; -- often with up.
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To bolster baseness. --Drayton.
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Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride. --Compton Reade. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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