All crutch synonyms
crutch
C c noun crutch
- cane — Cane is used to refer to the long, hollow, hard stems of plants such as bamboo. Strips of cane are often used to make furniture, and some types of cane can be crushed and processed to make sugar.
- bolster — If you bolster something such as someone's confidence or courage, you increase it.
- help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- buttress — Buttresses are supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall.
- prop — to support, or prevent from falling, with or as if with a prop (often followed by up): to prop an old fence; to prop up an unpopular government.
- stick — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
- aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
- post — power-on self-test
- brace — If you brace yourself for something unpleasant or difficult, you prepare yourself for it.
- staff — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
- support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- support system — people who provide support: a family support system to help a troubled youth.
- rest — a support for a lance; lance rest.
verb crutch
- undergird — to strengthen; secure, as by passing a rope or chain under and around: to undergird a top-heavy load.
- shore up — a supporting post or beam with auxiliary members, especially one placed obliquely against the side of a building, a ship in drydock, or the like; prop; strut.
- upbear — to bear up; raise aloft; sustain or support.