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upholdingverbpresent participle of uphold to continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objectionsdetermined to uphold her views in the face of all challenges defending, justifying, maintaining, supporting advocating, championing, espousingconfirming, vindicating, warrantingaffirming, asserting, averring, avouching, avowing, claiming, contending, insisting, pleading, proclaiming, professing, protesting, statingarguing, debating, discussingemphasizing, stressing, underlining, underscoring standing up for, sticking up for abandoning, abjuring, forsaking, recanting, retracting, taking back, withdrawingreversing, switchingcontroverting, disproving, rebutting, refuting to hold up or serve as a foundation foran entablature upheld by a series of gracefully slender columns bearing, bolstering, bracing, buttressing, carrying, propping (up), shoring (up), staying, supporting, sustaining, undergirding, underpinning steadying, trussing, underlying to move from a lower to a higher place or positionworshippers upheld their joined hands and sang the praises of the Lord boosting, craning, elevating, heaving, hefting, heightening, hiking, hoisting, jacking (up), lifting, perking (up), picking up, raising, taking up, uplifting, upping, upraising ascending, mounting, risingrearing, upending dropping, lowering descending, dipping, falling, pitching, plunging, slippingbearing, depressing, pressing, pushingsinking, submerging |