Word Meanings - BOLSTERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Supported; upheld. 2. Swelled out.

Related words: (words related to BOLSTERED)

• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• SWELL
  1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in
• SWELLDOM
  People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
• SUPPORTER
  A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
• SUPPORTMENT
  Support. Sir H. Wotton.
• SUPPORT
  convey, in LL., to support, sustain; sub under + portare to carry. 1. To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an
• SWELLING
  an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton. (more info) 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring;
• SUPPORTRESS
  A female supporter. You are my gracious patroness and supportress. Massinger.
• UPHELD
  imp. & p. p. of Uphold.
• SWELLISH
  Dandified; stylish.
• SWELLFISH
  Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
• SUPPORTANCE
  Support. Shak.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• INSUPPORTABLE
  Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• UNSWELL
  To sink from a swollen state; to subside. Chaucer.
• HEARTSWELLING
  Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
• UNSUPPORTABLE
  Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• BOSWELLISM
  The style of Boswell.
• HIGH-SWELLING
  Inflated; boastful.
• OUTSWELL
  1. To exceed in swelling. 2. To swell beyond; to overflow. Hewyt.