pillar
/ˈpɪlɚ/ verb C2- To provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars.
He/she/it pillars · Past pillared · Past participle pillared · -ing form pillaring
Verb forms
- Base form
- pillar
- He/she/it
- pillars
- Past
- pillared
- Past participle
- pillared
- -ing form
- pillaring
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Great is the palace with pillar and wall,
Caulfield Gardens was one of those lines of flat-faced pillared, and porticoed houses which are so prominent a product of the middle Victorian epoch in the West End of London.
By a sort of instinctive impulse, Franz withdrew as much as possible behind his pillar.
One towel passed round the throat and was secured at the back of the pillar.
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