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Synonyms:
- impact, cite, touch on, asseverate, go forward, take up, brace, bar, argue, wield, prop, assert, continue, protect, speak up for, concern, abet, rise, buttress, call, fend, resist, answer, counter, touch, raise, heft, underpin, foster, favor, allow, deal, counterattack, appeal, embolden, pick up, bear, plump for, help, rear, go along, heighten, serve, back up, benefit, sustain, extend, stay, oppose, affect, reply, shelter, avert, affirm, hold, push, appear, stay on, go on, up, avail, confirm, aid, secure, save, maintain, hike, rebut, hinge, screen, respond, carry on, safeguard, remain, arraign, relate, ally, bear on, return, get behind, have-to doe with, refer, keep, agree with, hoist, preserve, side with, bolster, recommend, undergird, claim, proceed, back, uplift, justify, support, police, countenance, come to, sympathize, retort, persist in, pertain, jack, encourage, conduct, lift, instigate, guard, bear upon, champion, promote, barricade, align, bring before, stand by, uprear, backfire, carry, shield, keep up, stand behind, sanction, act up, endorse, heave, advocate, exert, conserve, incite, buffer, cover, ward, succor, crane, boost, retain, keep on, perk, upraise, defend, observe, assist, shore, bring, elevate, buoy
Examples:
- - It is the holiest work that men can undertake, to maintain the freedom and the rights and to uphold the peace, the order and safety of their own nation. - "John Redmond's Last Years", Stephen Gwynn
- - And, indeed, this did but uphold my caution, that we should be well actioned, if that we chose some other part to our rest. - "The Night Land", William Hope Hodgson
- - Let not the eyes grow dim, look not back but forward; the soul must uphold itself like the sun. - "The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies", Walter Besant
Antonyms:
- denounce, disprove, fall, refute, plunge, disconcert, take back, pitch, depress, forsake, dissuade, push, discontinue, confound, abjure, reverse, hinder, withdraw, cease, disapprove, bear, sink, descend, stop, drop, recant, frustrate, lower, slip, press, rebut, switch, abandon, submerge, obstruct, baffle, lay off, discourage, quit, impede, controvert, dip, deter, retract, give up, expose, counteract
