Shore
41shore — English has two words shore. The one meaning ‘land at the water’s edge’ [14] was borrowed from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schōre, which probably came from the Germanic base *skur ‘cut’ (source also of English score, shear, etc). Shore… …
42shore — shore1 noun 1》 the land along the edge of a sea, lake, etc. ↘Law the land between ordinary high and low water marks. 2》 (also shores) literary a country or other geographic area bounded by a coast: distant shores. Phrases in shore on the… …
43shore up — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms shore up : present tense I/you/we/they shore up he/she/it shores up present participle shoring up past tense shored up past participle shored up 1) to give support or help to something that is having problems… …
44shore — Kahakai, kapa kai, kai, ae kai, makālae, pili āina, pilikahakai. ♦ Strip of barren land near the shore, kākaha. ♦ Hot, dry shore (in legends), kaha. ♦ Shore dweller, kō a kai, kanaka o kai …
45shore — Strictly and technically, lands adjacent to the sea or other tidal waters. The lands adjoining navigable waters, where the tide flows and reflows, which at high tides are submerged, and at low tides are bare. Shively v. Bowlby, 152 U.S. 1, 14… …
46shore — English has two words shore. The one meaning ‘land at the water’s edge’ [14] was borrowed from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schōre, which probably came from the Germanic base *skur ‘cut’ (source also of English score, shear, etc). Shore… …
47shore up — PHRASAL VERB If you shore up something that is weak or about to fail, you do something in order to strengthen it or support it. [V P n (not pron)] The democracies of the West may find it hard to shore up their defences. [Also V n P] …
48shore — I noun he swam out from the shore Syn: seashore, lakeshore, lakefront, bayfront, beach, foreshore, sand(s), shoreline, waterside, front, coast, seaboard; literary strand II verb we had to shore up the building Syn …
49shore — The margin of the sea; that space of land which is alternately covered and left dry by the rising and falling of the tide the space between high and low water mark. 56 Am J1st Wat § 448. The area lying between the lines of high water and low… …
50shore up — {v.} To add support to (something) where weakness is shown; make (something) stronger where support is needed; support. * /When the flood waters weakened the bridge, it was shored up with steel beams and sandbags until it could be rebuilt./ *… …
