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propped
(encz) | propped,podepřel Zdeněk Brož |
Propped
(gcide) | Prop \Prop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Propped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Propping.] [Akin to LG. & D. proppen to cram, stuff, thrust
into, stop, G. pfropfen, Dan. proppe, Sw. proppa; of
uncertain origin, cf. G. pfropfen to graft, fr. L. propago
set, layer of a plant, slip, shoot. Cf. 3d. Prop,
Propagate.]
To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something
under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building;
(Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining
state. --Shak.
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Till the bright mountains prop the incumbent sky.
--Pope.
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For being not propp'd by ancestry. --Shak.
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I prop myself upon those few supports that are left me.
--Pope.
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Propped
(gcide) | Prop \Prop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Propped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Propping.] [Akin to LG. & D. proppen to cram, stuff, thrust
into, stop, G. pfropfen, Dan. proppe, Sw. proppa; of
uncertain origin, cf. G. pfropfen to graft, fr. L. propago
set, layer of a plant, slip, shoot. Cf. 3d. Prop,
Propagate.]
To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something
under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building;
(Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining
state. --Shak.
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Till the bright mountains prop the incumbent sky.
--Pope.
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For being not propp'd by ancestry. --Shak.
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I prop myself upon those few supports that are left me.
--Pope.
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Unpropped
(gcide) | Unpropped \Unpropped\
See propped. |
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