unbolster

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ bolster

Verb[edit]

unbolster (third-person singular simple present unbolsters, present participle unbolstering, simple past and past participle unbolstered)

  1. (transitive) To remove the support from.
    • 1859, Gregory Thurston Bedell, Fellow Workers: Two Sermons, page 36:
      What can unbolster a man whose trust in his morality, or pious education, or social virtues, props him up to a fancied superiority to the provisions of the Gospel; what, but the truth, [] ?