shore

A2 Topic:Maritime & Sailing

US /ʃɔɹ/ UK /ʃɔː/ See IPA manual

Freq #3846

Meanings

1

noun
The land along the edge of a sea, lake, or other large body of water.

We walked along the rocky shore at sunset.
2

verb
To support or strengthen something, often with props or extra help.

They used wooden beams to shore up the old mine roof.

Verb forms

Verb forms are not available for this word yet.

Multiword verbs with shore

shore up Phrasal verb A2

to support something with solid props so it cannot collapse

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Synonyms

2 verb · to support or strengthen... prop buttress reinforce strengthen support

Word family

Forms shoredshoresshorewardshorewardsshoring

Derived forms dogshoreshorershoringunshored

Related forms longshoremanshorage

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shore up
to support something with solid props so it cannot collapse

Verb + adverb

Etymology

From Middle English schore, from Old English *sċora (attested as sċor- in placenames), from Proto-Germanic *skurô (“rugged rock, cliff, high rocky shore”). Possibly related to Old English sċieran (“to cut”), which survives today as English shear. Cognate with Middle Dutch scorre (“land washed by the sea”), Middle Low German schor (“shore, coast, headland”), Middle High German schorre ("rocky crag, high rocky shore"; > German Schorre, Schorren (“towering rock, crag”)), and Limburgish sjaor (“riverbank”). Maybe connected with Norwegian Bokmål skjær.

schore Middle English *sċora Old English *skurô Proto-Germanic

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Topics

Maritime & Sailing Nature & Landscape

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# shore

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A2
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**IPA (US):** /ʃɔɹ/
**IPA (UK):** /ʃɔː/
**Frequency rank:** 3846

## Meanings
1. The land along the edge of a sea, lake, or other large body of water.
2. To support or strengthen something, often with props or extra help.

## Examples
- We walked along the rocky shore at sunset.
- They used wooden beams to shore up the old mine roof.

## Derived Forms
- dogshore
- shorer
- shoring
- unshored

## Related Forms
- longshoreman
- shorage

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: schore
- Root: *sċora
- Root: *skurô

## Etymology
From Middle English schore, from Old English *sċora (attested as sċor- in placenames), from Proto-Germanic *skurô (“rugged rock, cliff, high rocky shore”). Possibly related to Old English sċieran (“to cut”), which survives today as English shear. Cognate with Middle Dutch scorre (“land washed by the sea”), Middle Low German schor (“shore, coast, headland”), Middle High German schorre ("rocky crag, high rocky shore"; > German Schorre, Schorren (“towering rock, crag”)), and Limburgish sjaor (“riverbank”). Maybe connected with Norwegian Bokmål skjær.

## AI Etymology
Shore is from Middle English schore, from Old English *sċora (attested as sċor- in placenames), from Proto-Germanic *skurô (“rugged rock, cliff, high rocky shore”). Possibly related to Old English sċieran (“to cut”), which survives today as English shear. Cognate with Middle Dutch scorre (“land washed by the sea”), Middle Low German schor (“shore, coast, headland”), Middle High German schorre ("rocky crag, high rocky shore"; > German Schorre, Schorren (“towering rock, crag”)), and Limburgish sjaor (“riverbank”). Maybe connected with Norwegian Bokmål skjær. Important forms in the word's history include Middle English schore, Old English *sċora, Proto-Germanic *skurô. In current use it includes senses such as The land along the edge of a sea, lake, or other large body of water and To support or strengthen something, often with props or extra help.

## Topics
- Maritime & Sailing
- Nature & Landscape

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