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supportnoun a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something elseif you don't add a couple more supports to that tower of blocks, it's going to fall down brace, buttress, mount, mounting, prop, reinforcement, shore, spur, stay, underpinning shoringcolumn, pedestal, pilaster, pillararch, bolster, bracket, cantilever, girderbearingcrutch, peg, post, stake, stanchion, stand, stilt, strut, trussbase, foundation, frame an act or instance of helpingthe team's victory owes a lot to Joe's strong support in left field abetment, aid, assist, assistance, backing, boost, hand, help, helping hand, leg up, lift advancement, encouragement, facilitation, forwarding, furtherance, furthering, nurturancebenefaction, patronage, promotion, sponsorshipadvice, care, counsel, guidance, mentoringattendance, attention, hand-holding, servicebeneficence, charity, favor, kindness, philanthropyassuagement, palliation, relief, succor hindrance constraint, frustration, inhibition, interference, obstruction, repression, restraintdeterrence, discouragement to promote the interests or cause ofthough childless themselves, they support the local schools both by volunteering and by fiercely opposing funding cuts advocate, back, champion, endorse(also indorse), patronize, plump (for), plunk (for)or plonk (for) adopt, embrace, espouseabet, aid, assist, help, prop (up), second, side (with)backstop, bolster, boost, buttress, reinforce(also reenforce)advance, forward, furtherplug, preach, talk upbail out, deliver, rescue, save go in for, go to bat for, hold a brief for, stand up for, stick up for baffle, foil, frustrate, interfere, oppose, sabotage, thwartdesert, disappoint, fail, let down to pay the living expenses ofa young widow supporting a sick mother as well as two small children on a teacher's salary keep, maintain, provide (for) finance, fund, patronize, set up, sponsor, stake, underwrite foot the bill (for), take care of to hold up or serve as a foundation forpillars supporting the bridge bear, bolster, brace, buttress, carry, prop (up), shore (up), stay, sustain, undergird, underpin, uphold steady, truss, underlie to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)studies that support the claim that red wine drinkers have a reduced risk of coronary disease and cancer back, bolster, buttress, corroborate, reinforce(also reenforce), shore (up), substantiate confirm, establish, prove, verifyaffirm, avouch, validate undercut, undermine, weaken to continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objectionswe support the students' right to speak out on local issues that affect them defend, justify, maintain, uphold 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 give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness ofnew evidence supports the original researchers' unexpected conclusions argue, attest, authenticate, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, validate, verify, vindicate avouch, back (up), testify (to), vouch (for), witnessguarantee, warrantaffirm, assert, aver, avow, declare, professdemonstrate, document, establish, prove, reinforce(also reenforce) disprove, rebut, refute contradict, gainsaydeny, disavow, disclaimchallenge, contest, dispute, question to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an endsent reinforcements to support the troops deployed overseas abet, aid, assist, back, backstop, help, prop (up) advance, ease, facilitate, forward, foster, further, launchchampion, endorse(also indorse), patronize, promote, sponsorattend, care (for), comfort, minister (to), succorsustainbolster, boost, buttress, reinforce(also reenforce)advise, counsel, guide, mentor, nurturebail out, deliver, rescue, saveembolden, encourage, heartenbenefit, favor, oblige, profit, serve bear a hand, to stand one in good stead hinder balk, bar, block, constrain, hamper, handicap, hold back, impede, inhibit, obstruct, restrain, stranglebaffle, foil, frustrate, inconvenience, interfere, oppose, sabotage, thwartdesert, disappoint, fail, let downdiscourage, disheartenrepress, retard, stifle, straiten, stuntdamage, harm, hurt, injure to put up with (something painful or difficult)he simply cannot support the thought of having to go on living without his beloved wife at his side abide, absorb, accept, bear, bide(chiefly dialect), brook, countenance, endure, go, hack, handle, meet, pocket, stand, stick out, stomach, sustain, sweat out, take, tolerate, wear(British) allow, permit, suffer, swallowreconcile (to)acquiesce, agree (with or to), assent (to), capitulate, consent (to), respect, submit (to), yield (to) live with, lump (it), stand for, tough it out decline, dismiss, refuse, reject, repudiate, spurn, turn downcombat, contest, fight, oppose, resistavoid, bypass, circumvent, dodge, elude, escape, evade, missabstain (from), forbear, refrain (from) v.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 14th century |