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upholdverb to continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objectionsdetermined to uphold her views in the face of all challenges defend, justify, maintain, support advocate, champion, espouseconfirm, vindicate, warrantaffirm, assert, aver, avouch, avow, claim, contend, insist, plead, proclaim, profess, protest, stateargue, debate, discussemphasize, stress, underline, underscore stand up for, stick up for abandon, abjure, forsake, recant, retract, take back, withdrawreverse, switchcontrovert, disprove, rebut, refute to hold up or serve as a foundation foran entablature upheld by a series of gracefully slender columns bear, bolster, brace, buttress, carry, prop (up), shore (up), stay, support, sustain, undergird, underpin steady, truss, underlie to move from a lower to a higher place or positionworshippers upheld their joined hands and sang the praises of the Lord boost, crane, elevate, heave, heft, heighten, hike, hoist, jack (up), lift, perk (up), pick up, raise, take up, up, uplift, upraise ascend, mount, riserear, upend drop, lower descend, dip, fall, pitch, plunge, slipbear, depress, press, pushsink, submerge support, uphold, advocate, back, champion mean to favor actively one that meets opposition.support is least explicit about the nature of the assistance given.supports waterfront development uphold implies extended support given to something attacked.upheld the legitimacy of the military action advocate stresses urging or pleading.advocated prison reform back suggests supporting by lending assistance to one failing or falling.refusing to back the call for sanctions champion suggests publicly defending one unjustly attacked or too weak to advocate his or her own cause.championed the rights of children in the 13th century |