- prop
- v1. support, hold up, uphold, truss, truss up, bear, bear up; brace, bolster, buttress, gird; underprop, underpin, underbrace, bed, base, form the foundation of, underlie; reinforce, restrengthen, crutch, shore up; cradle, pillow, buoy, buoy up, keep afloat.2. lean against or on, stand up against, rest against or on, lay against, arrange against; balance against or on, steady or stabilize against.3. sustain, maintain, provide for; feed, victual, provision, board; carry, shoulder, keep up, keep alive; nurse, nourish, nurture.4. finance, sponsor, patronize, fund, capitalize, subsidize, underwrite, put up the money for, pay for, grubstake, Inf. stake, Inf. bankroll, Inf. angel.n5. support, beam, horizontal, cross-beam, rafter, joist; vertical, upright, column, post, shaft, pillar, pole, rod, stick; underprop, underpinning, shore, truss, fulcrum, Archaic. socle; brace, bracer, bolster, bracket, stay, buttress, shoulder, arm; rope, cable, guywire, guyline, guy; base, basis, foundation, substructure, underbuilding, groundwork, embankment, abutment; stand, sill, bed, bedding.6. supporter, maintainer, mainstay, sustainer, upholder, Sl. meal ticket, Sl. sugar daddy; benefactor, benefactress, benefitter, friend, guardian angel, tutelary, tutelor, patron saint, Inf. fairy godmother; financer, funder, backer, patron, subsidizer, underwriter, angel, Inf. staker, Inf. grubstaker; advocate, endorser, second, booster.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.