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supportingadjective serving to give support to the truth or factualness of somethingscientists looking for direct supporting evidence of microscopic black holes, the existence of which is theoretical confirmational, confirmatory, confirming, corroborating, corroborative, corroboratory, probative, probatory, substantiating, supportive, verifying, vindicating auxiliary, supplementarybeneficial, helpful confuting, disproving, refuting contradictory, contrary, counter, opposing to promote the interests or cause ofthough childless themselves, they support the local schools both by volunteering and by fiercely opposing funding cuts advocating, backing, championing, endorsing(also indorsing), patronizing, plumping (for), plunking (for)or plonking (for) adopting, embracing, espousingabetting, aiding, assisting, helping, propping (up), seconding, siding (with)backstopping, bolstering, boosting, buttressing, reinforcing(also reenforcing)advancing, forwarding, furtheringplugging, preaching, talking upbailing out, delivering, rescuing, saving going in for, going to bat for, holding a brief for, standing up for, sticking up for baffling, foiling, frustrating, interfering, opposing, sabotaging, thwartingdeserting, disappointing, failing, letting 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 bearing, bolstering, bracing, buttressing, carrying, propping (up), shoring (up), staying, sustaining, undergirding, underpinning, upholding steadying, trussing, underlying 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 backing, bolstering, buttressing, corroborating, reinforcing(also reenforcing), shoring (up), substantiating confirming, establishing, proving, verifyingaffirming, avouching, validating undercutting, undermining, weakening 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 defending, justifying, maintaining, upholding 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 give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness ofnew evidence supports the original researchers' unexpected conclusions arguing, attesting, authenticating, bearing out, certifying, confirming, corroborating, substantiating, validating, verifying, vindicating avouching, backing (up), testifying (to), vouching (for), witnessingguaranteeing, warrantingaffirming, asserting, averring, avowing, declaring, professingdemonstrating, documenting, establishing, proving, reinforcing(also reenforcing) disproving, rebutting, refuting contradicting, gainsayingdenying, disavowing, disclaimingchallenging, contesting, disputing, questioning to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an endsent reinforcements to support the troops deployed overseas abetting, aiding, assisting, backing, backstopping, helping, propping (up) advancing, easing, facilitating, forwarding, fostering, furthering, launchingchampioning, endorsing(also indorsing), patronizing, promoting, sponsoringattending, caring (for), comforting, ministering (to), succoringsustainingbolstering, boosting, buttressing, reinforcing(also reenforcing)advising, counseling(or counselling), guiding, mentoring, nurturingbailing out, delivering, rescuing, savingemboldening, encouraging, hearteningbenefiting(also benefitting), favoring, obliging, profiting, serving bearing a hand, standing one in good stead hindering balking, barring, blocking, constraining, hampering, handicapping, holding back, impeding, inhibiting, obstructing, restraining, stranglingbaffling, foiling, frustrating, inconveniencing, interfering, opposing, sabotaging, thwartingdeserting, disappointing, failing, letting downdiscouraging, dishearteningrepressing, retarding, stifling, straitening, stuntingdamaging, harming, hurting, injuring 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 abiding, absorbing, accepting, bearing, biding(chiefly dialect), brooking, countenancing, enduring, going, hacking, handling, meeting, pocketing, standing, sticking out, stomaching, sustaining, sweating out, taking, tolerating, wearing(British) allowing, permitting, suffering, swallowingreconciling (to)acquiescing, agreeing (with or to), assenting (to), capitulating, consenting (to), respecting, submitting (to), yielding (to) living with, lumping (it), standing for, toughing it out declining, dismissing, refusing, rejecting, repudiating, spurning, turning downcombating(or combatting), contesting, fighting, opposing, resistingavoiding, bypassing, circumventing, dodging, eluding, escaping, evading, missingabstaining (from), forbearing, refraining (from) |