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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

(transitive) To support with, or as if with, a prop. / (transitive, idiomatic) To be at the bottom of (a league)

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prop up

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Source Word

prop up

transitive idiomatic

Japanese Meaning

（物理的に）支える、支柱として機能させる / リーグなどで最下位に位置する

What is this buttons?

To keep the old fence from collapsing, we had to prop up the sagging posts with concrete blocks.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

古い柵が崩れるのを防ぐために、垂れ下がった杭をコンクリートブロックで支えなければなりませんでした。

Sense（1）

(transitive) To support with, or as if with, a prop.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

(transitive, idiomatic) To be at the bottom of (a league)

Under Moyes, United have fewer home points (21) than Norwich City and Hull City, with their count of 18 goals the same as Fulham and Cardiff City, who prop up the table.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

props up

（ present singular third-person ）

propping up

（ participle present ）

propped up

（ participle past ）

propped up

（ past ）

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