Crossword-Solution: MAINTAIN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Maintain | v. t. | 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. |
| Maintain | v. t. | To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish. |
| Maintain | v. t. | To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail. |
| Maintain | v. t. | To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed. |
| Maintain | v. t. | To affirm; to support or defend by argument. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| MAINTAIN | anagram | AMANITIN |
We have 75 clues for the answer “MAINTAIN”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| state or assert | 1 answer |
| continue or keep in existence | 1 answer |
| Perform upkeep on | 1 answer |
| Part one of RCMP motto, in English | 1 answer |
| Keep most important article in metal container | 1 answer |
| Keep in good condition | 1 answer |
| Continue to keep as before | 1 answer |
| ___ Hari | 2 answers |
| CONDITION, keep in good | 4 answers |
| DISLODGE (ant.) | 4 answers |
| Aver | 6 answers |
| DIVERSIFY (ant.) | 8 answers |
| DISJOIN (ant.) | 8 answers |
| cater | 11 answers |
| ASSERT TO BE TRUE | 11 answers |
| perpetuate | 12 answers |
| eternalize | 12 answers |
| Keep ___ alive! | 12 answers |
| Avouch. | 15 answers |
| Asseverate | 18 answers |
| Vow | 19 answers |
| immortalize | 20 answers |
| Keep up | 21 answers |
| Keep going! | 25 answers |
| insist | 26 answers |
| Bear up? | 28 answers |
| Profess | 29 answers |
| Disseminate | 29 answers |
| Allege | 32 answers |
| Vindicate | 34 answers |
| avow | 36 answers |
| Furnish | 36 answers |
| Contend | 37 answers |
| uphold | 38 answers |
| Justify | 39 answers |
| make evident | 41 answers |
| eternalise | 44 answers |
| comport | 44 answers |
| Preserve | 44 answers |
| Persist | 44 answers |
| Supply | 44 answers |
| Carry-on | 45 answers |
| Assert | 45 answers |
| Provide | 45 answers |
| Résumé | 46 answers |
| Undergo | 47 answers |
| resume | 47 answers |
| Abet | 47 answers |
| Nourish | 48 answers |
| Affirm | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZMACEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MAINTAIN (5)
For eleven years she had worthily striven to maintain some semblance of household order amid conditions that made order very difficult.
Copper prices held strong in 1990, helping to maintain a balance-of-payments surplus and increase international reserves.
And now that I am lord, Successor to his throne, his bed, his wife, (And had he not been frustrate in the hope Of issue, common children of one womb Had forced a closer bond twixt him and me, But Fate swooped down upon him), therefore I His blood-avenger will maintain his cause As though he were my sire, and leave no stone Unturned to track the assassin or avenge The son of Labdacus, of Polydore, Of Cadmus, and Agenor first of the race.
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This is a source of never-ending frustration for the diehards who maintain older PDP-10 or VAX systems.
Quotes with MAINTAIN (3)
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.
There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is objectionable because it is “judgmental,” or constitutes a judgment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism and a condemnation that vegetarians (or other consumers of animal products) are “bad” people. Yes to the first part; no to the second. There is no coherent distinction between flesh and other animal products. They are all the same and we cannot justify consuming …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1980–2024).