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supportsnounpl. of support 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 braces, buttresses, mountings, mounts, props, reinforcements, shores, spurs, stays, underpinnings shoringscolumns, pedestals, pilasters, pillarsarches, bolsters, brackets, cantilevers, girdersbearingscrutches, pegs, posts, stakes, stanchions, stands, stilts, struts, trussesbases, foundations, frames an act or instance of helpingthe team's victory owes a lot to Joe's strong support in left field abetments, aids, assistances, assists, backings, boosts, hands, help, helping hands, legs up, lifts advancements, encouragements, facilitations, furtherances, nurturancesbenefactions, patronages, promotions, sponsorshipsadvice, care, counsel, guidanceattendances, attentions, hand-holdings, servicesbeneficences, charities, favors, philanthropiesassuagements, palliations, reliefs, succors hindrances constraints, frustrations, inhibitions, interferences, obstructions, repressions, restraintsdeterrences, discouragements to promote the interests or cause ofthough childless themselves, they support the local schools both by volunteering and by fiercely opposing funding cuts advocates, backs, champions, endorses(also indorses), patronizes, plumps (for), plunks (for)or plonks (for) adopts, embraces, espousesabets, aids, assists, helps, props (up), seconds, sides (with)backstops, bolsters, boosts, buttresses, reinforces(also reenforces)advances, forwards, furthersplugs, preaches, talks upbails out, delivers, rescues, saves goes in for, goes to bat for, holds a brief for, stands up for, sticks up for baffles, foils, frustrates, interferes, opposes, sabotages, thwartsdeserts, disappoints, fails, lets down to pay the living expenses ofa young widow supporting a sick mother as well as two small children on a teacher's salary keeps, maintains, provides (for) finances, funds, patronizes, sets up, sponsors, stakes, underwrites foots the bill (for), takes care of to hold up or serve as a foundation forpillars supporting the bridge bears, bolsters, braces, buttresses, carries, props (up), shores (up), stays, sustains, undergirds, underpins, upholds steadies, trusses, underlies 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 backs, bolsters, buttresses, corroborates, reinforces(also reenforces), shores (up), substantiates confirms, establishes, proves, verifiesaffirms, avouches, validates undercuts, undermines, weakens 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 defends, justifies, maintains, upholds advocates, champions, espousesconfirms, vindicates, warrantsaffirms, asserts, avers, avouches, avows, claims, contends, insists, pleads, proclaims, professes, protests, statesargues, debates, discussesemphasizes, stresses, underlines, underscores stands up for, sticks up for abandons, abjures, forsakes, recants, retracts, takes back, withdrawsreverses, switchescontroverts, disproves, rebuts, refutes to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness ofnew evidence supports the original researchers' unexpected conclusions argues, attests, authenticates, bears out, certifies, confirms, corroborates, substantiates, validates, verifies, vindicates avouches, backs (up), testifies (to), vouches (for), witnessesguarantees, warrantsaffirms, asserts, avers, avows, declares, professesdemonstrates, documents, establishes, proves, reinforces(also reenforces) disproves, rebuts, refutes contradicts, gainsaysdenies, disavows, disclaimschallenges, contests, disputes, questions to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an endsent reinforcements to support the troops deployed overseas abets, aids, assists, backs, backstops, helps, props (up) advances, eases, facilitates, forwards, fosters, furthers, launcheschampions, endorses(also indorses), patronizes, promotes, sponsorsattends, cares (for), comforts, ministers (to), succorssustainsbolsters, boosts, buttresses, reinforces(also reenforces)advises, counsels, guides, mentors, nurturesbails out, delivers, rescues, savesemboldens, encourages, heartensbenefits, favors, obliges, profits, serves bears a hand, stands one in good stead hinders balks, bars, blocks, constrains, hampers, handicaps, holds back, impedes, inhibits, obstructs, restrains, stranglesbaffles, foils, frustrates, inconveniences, interferes, opposes, sabotages, thwartsdeserts, disappoints, fails, lets downdiscourages, disheartensrepresses, retards, stifles, straitens, stuntsdamages, harms, hurts, injures 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 abides, absorbs, accepts, bears, bides(chiefly dialect), brooks, countenances, endures, goes, hacks, handles, meets, pockets, stands, sticks out, stomachs, sustains, sweats out, takes, tolerates, wears(British) allows, permits, suffers, swallowsreconciles (to)acquiesces, agrees (with or to), assents (to), capitulates, consents (to), respects, submits (to), yields (to) lives with, lumps (it), stands for, toughs it out declines, dismisses, refuses, rejects, repudiates, spurns, turns downcombats, contests, fights, opposes, resistsavoids, bypasses, circumvents, dodges, eludes, escapes, evades, missesabstains (from), forbears, refrains (from) |