Crossword-Solution: SUPPORT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Support | v. t. | To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the trunk of a tree supports the branches. |
| Support | v. t. | To endure without being overcome, exhausted, or changed in character; to sustain; as, to support pain, distress, or misfortunes. |
| Support | v. t. | To keep from failing or sinking; to solace under affictive circumstances; to assist; to encourage; to defend; as, to support the courage or spirits. |
| Support | v. t. | To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain; as, to support the character of King Lear. |
| Support | v. t. | To furnish with the means of sustenance or livelihood; to maintain; to provide for; as, to support a family; to support the ministers of the gospel. |
| Support | v. t. | To carry on; to enable to continue; to maintain; as, to support a war or a contest; to support an argument or a debate. |
| Support | v. t. | To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain; as, the testimony is not sufficient to support the charges; the evidence will not support the statements or allegations. |
| Support | v. t. | To vindicate; to maintain; to defend successfully; as, to be able to support one's own cause. |
| Support | v. t. | To uphold by aid or countenance; to aid; to help; to back up; as, to support a friend or a party; to support the present administration. |
| Support | v. t. | A attend as an honorary assistant; as, a chairman supported by a vice chairman; O'Connell left the prison, supported by his two sons. |
| Support | n. | The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining. |
| Support | n. | That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind. |
| Support | n. | That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reenforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery. |
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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
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eruption
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Sentences with SUPPORT (5)
All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution—to this provision as much as to any other.
And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th’ upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know’st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad’st it pregnant: What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great Argument I may assert th’ Eternal Providence, And justifie the wayes of God to men.
Prior to his conversion, he relied upon his own depravity to shield and sustain him in his savage barbarity; but after his conversion, he found religious sanction and support for his slaveholding cruelty.
The nation is, therefore, heavily dependent on foreign assistance to help support its balance of payments and to finance development projects.
Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.
Quotes with SUPPORT (3)
Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. You take all the things you want from a person -- sexual chemistry, let's say, or good conversation, or financial support, or intellectual compatibility, or niceness, or loyalty -- and you get to pick three of those things. The rest you have to look for elsewhere. It's only in the movies that you find someone who gives you all those things. But this isn't the movies. In the real world, you hav…
. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the effect of its being made an instrument of intimidation, corruption, and delusion, for the support of depredation and oppression in the hands of governments.
That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a full-dress reprise of internment camps, the mass murder of civilians, the reinstiutution of torture and rape as acts of policy. And I didn't expect so many of my comrades to be indifferent - or even take the side of the fascists. It was a time when many people on the left were saying 'Don't intervene, we'll only make things worse' or, 'Don't intervene, it might destabilis…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1950–2022).