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supportedverbpast tense of support to promote the interests or cause ofthough childless themselves, they support the local schools both by volunteering and by fiercely opposing funding cuts advocated, backed, championed, endorsed(also indorsed), patronized, plumped (for), plunked (for)or plonked (for) adopted, embraced, espousedabetted, aided, assisted, helped, propped (up), seconded, sided (with)backstopped, bolstered, boosted, buttressed, reinforced(also reenforced)advanced, forwarded, furtheredplugged, preached, talked upbailed out, delivered, rescued, saved held a brief for, stood up for, stuck up for, went in for, went to bat for baffled, foiled, frustrated, interfered, opposed, sabotaged, thwarteddeserted, disappointed, failed, 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 to hold up or serve as a foundation forpillars supporting the bridge bolstered, bore, braced, buttressed, carried, propped (up), shored (up), stayed, sustained, undergirded, underpinned, upheld steadied, trussed, underlay 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 backed, bolstered, buttressed, corroborated, reinforced(also reenforced), shored (up), substantiated confirmed, established, proved, verifiedaffirmed, avouched, validated undercut, undermined, weakened 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 defended, justified, maintained, upheld advocated, championed, espousedconfirmed, vindicated, warrantedaffirmed, asserted, averred, avouched, avowed, claimed, contended, insisted, pleaded(or pled also plead), proclaimed, professed, protested, statedargued, debated, discussedemphasized, stressed, underlined, underscored stood up for, stuck up for abandoned, abjured, forsook, recanted, retracted, took back, withdrewreversed, switchedcontroverted, disproved, rebutted, refuted to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness ofnew evidence supports the original researchers' unexpected conclusions argued, attested, authenticated, bore out, certified, confirmed, corroborated, substantiated, validated, verified, vindicated avouched, backed (up), testified (to), vouched (for), witnessedguaranteed, warrantedaffirmed, asserted, averred, avowed, declared, professeddemonstrated, documented, established, proved, reinforced(also reenforced) disproved, rebutted, refuted contradicted, gainsaiddenied, disavowed, disclaimedchallenged, contested, disputed, questioned to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an endsent reinforcements to support the troops deployed overseas abetted, aided, assisted, backed, backstopped, helped, propped (up) advanced, eased, facilitated, forwarded, fostered, furthered, launchedchampioned, endorsed(also indorsed), patronized, promoted, sponsoredattended, cared (for), comforted, ministered (to), succoredsustainedbolstered, boosted, buttressed, reinforced(also reenforced)advised, counseled(or counselled), guided, mentored, nurturedbailed out, delivered, rescued, savedemboldened, encouraged, heartenedbenefited(also benefitted), favored, obliged, profited, served bore a hand, stood one in good stead hindered balked, barred, blocked, constrained, hampered, handicapped, held back, impeded, inhibited, obstructed, restrained, strangledbaffled, foiled, frustrated, inconvenienced, interfered, opposed, sabotaged, thwarteddeserted, disappointed, failed, let downdiscouraged, disheartenedrepressed, retarded, stifled, straitened, stunteddamaged, harmed, hurt, injured 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 abided(also abode), absorbed, accepted, bode(or bided, chiefly dialect), bore, brooked, countenanced, endured, hacked, handled, met, pocketed, stomached, stood, stuck out, sustained, sweat out(or sweated out), tolerated, took, went, wore(British) allowed, permitted, suffered, swallowedreconciled (to)acquiesced, agreed (with or to), assented (to), capitulated, consented (to), respected, submitted (to), yielded (to) lived with, lumped (it), stood for, toughed it out declined, dismissed, refused, rejected, repudiated, spurned, turned downcombated(or combatted), contested, fought, opposed, resistedavoided, bypassed, circumvented, dodged, eluded, escaped, evaded, missedabstained (from), forbore, refrained (from) |