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English Dictionary: maintain |
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2 results for maintain |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- maintain
- v
- keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep
clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"
Synonym(s): keep, maintain, hold
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not keep up the building"; "children must be taught to conserve our national heritage"; "The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts"
Synonym(s): conserve, preserve, maintain, keep up
- supply with necessities and support; "She alone sustained her family"; "The money will sustain our good cause"; "There's little to earn and many to keep"
Synonym(s): sustain, keep, maintain
- state categorically
Synonym(s): assert, asseverate, maintain
- have and exercise; "wield power and authority"
Synonym(s): wield, exert, maintain
- maintain for use and service; "I keep a car in the countryside"; "She keeps an apartment in Paris for her shopping trips"
Synonym(s): keep, maintain
- maintain by writing regular records; "keep a diary"; "maintain a record"; "keep notes"
Synonym(s): keep, maintain
- state or assert; "He maintained his innocence"
Synonym(s): maintain, defend
- support against an opponent; "The appellate court upheld the verdict"
Synonym(s): uphold, maintain
- stick to correctly or closely; "The pianist kept time with the metronome"; "keep count"; "I cannot keep track of all my employees"
Synonym(s): observe, keep, maintain
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Maintain \Main*tain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Maintained}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Maintaining}.] [OE. maintenen, F. maintenir,
properly, to hold by the hand; main hand (L. manus) + F.
tenir to hold (L. tenere). See {Manual}, and Tenable.]
1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to
support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer
to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of
heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to
maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach;
to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present
reputation.
2. To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to
surrender or relinquish.
God values . . . every one as he maintains his post.
--Grew.
3. To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.
Maintain talk with the duke. --Shak.
4. To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply
with what is needed.
Glad, by his labor, to maintain his life.
--Stirling.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
--Franklin.
5. To affirm; to support or defend by argument.
It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to
be maintained by it. --South.
Syn: To assert; vindicate; allege. See {Assert}.
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