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maintainingverbpresent participle of maintain to keep in good conditionhe repairs and maintains antique cars as a hobby conserving, keeping up, preserving, saving servicingsupporting, sustainingcaring (for), husbanding, managingdefending, guarding, protecting, safeguarding, screening, shieldingcuring, fixing, healing, remedyingmending, patching, rebuilding, reconstructing, rehabilitating, rejuvenating, restoring disregarding, ignoring, neglectingbreaking, damaging, destroying, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring, ruining, wrecking to continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objectionspart of debating is learning to maintain your position in the face of harsh challenges defending, justifying, supporting, 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 pay the living expenses ofwe simply cannot afford to maintain a horse to state (something) as a reason in support of or against something under considerationshe continued to maintain that a sewing machine would end up paying for itself since she could make her own clothes arguing, asserting, contending, pleading, reasoning adducing, citing, mentioningclaiming, insistingaffirming, averring, avouching, avowingadvancing, giving, offering, proposing, submittingadvising, counseling(or counselling), recommending, suggesting, urgingconvincing, persuadingadvocating, championing, defending, enforcing, espousing, supportingexplaining, justifying, rationalizingconsidering, debating, discussingconfuting, countering, disproving, rebutting, refuting to state as a fact usually forcefullyhe maintains that there is indeed hard evidence for extraterrestrial visitors affirming, alleging, asserting, averring, avouching, avowing, claiming, contending, declaring, insisting, professing, protesting, purporting, warranting announcing, broadcasting, proclaimingarguing, rationalizing, reasoningconfirming, justifying, vindicatingdefending, persevering, supporting, upholdingreaffirming, reasserting putting forth denying, gainsaying abandoningdisavowing, disclaiming, disowning, negating, negativing, rejecting, repudiatingchallenging, disputing, questioningconfuting, disproving, rebutting, refutingcontradicting, countering |