I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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There are no curtains to soften its edges and the pelmet is propped up by the bookcase.
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She lies on her back, her body propped up with pillows, fluids dripping through tubes into her veins.
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She remembered him propped up by the nurses, waving his little hands about.
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I hauled my bargain table outside and propped up the cardboard three-books-for-a-buck sign.
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Dennis and the others were propping up the bar, Karen was supposedly selecting duty-free perfume.
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They frequently can be seen perched on a rock and propped up on their ventral fins as if surveying their little world.
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Poorly managed and with low yields, it was propped up with a huge loan from the estate's trustees.
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Cathleen Schine propped up in bed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An old guitar lay propped against a wall.
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He propped his bicycle against the fence and ran inside.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Anushkia Smyslov had bandaged Alex Bannen's head, and the physicist was propped in a sitting position against a workstation.
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As soon as the infant Arthur was old enough to be propped against the proscenium arch, he was included in the turn.
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Duncan had left Myeloski propping up the bar, drinking his customary vodka and Budweiser chaser.
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Nurse Bells had propped him upright and he looked alert and interested.
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She remembered him propped up by the nurses, waving his little hands about.
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The President was propped up in bed.
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They prop up prices for growers by controlling production rather than through federal subsidies.
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They are trying to prop up the tumbling stockmarket by cutting the supply of new issues.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Low interest rates are the stock market's most important prop .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And Lewis was such a tremendous stage prop .
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Salford prop David Young has been appointed to lead the side in the absence of Davies.
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The clothes lines were taken down and rolled up by the dustbins, together with the props.
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The days of buying politicians and pimping ballot props are over because the public has wised up.