Definition of "bolstered" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of bolster. (verb)

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• "The win bolstered Louisville's hope for a Jan. 2 bowl bid."
• "The fact that Menendez did have my name bolstered my suspicions that my problems didn't lie with Zerak and the campaign."
• "But behind the Italian fashion house's prosperity is an extraordinary story, of a family beset by controversy and war, and a fashion label bolstered by the earliest kind of celebrity endorsement."