Crossword-Solution: UPHOLD 6 letters, 40 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Uphold v. t. To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
Uphold v. t. To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from
falling; to maintain.
Uphold v. t. To aid by approval or encouragement; to countenance; as,
to uphold a person in wrongdoing.

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UPHOLD anagram HOLDUP

We have 40 clues for the answer “UPHOLD”

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maintain or defend against opposition 1 answer
Defend against criticism 1 answer
Defend, as against criticism 1 answer
Defend, as the law 1 answer
GIVE countenance to 1 answer
MAINTAIN decision 1 answer
MAINTAIN verdict 1 answer
Maintain a custom 1 answer
Maintain against challenge 1 answer
Maintain, as a ruling 1 answer
Maintain, defend 1 answer
Support, as a principle 1 answer
Support, as a ruling 1 answer
upholster 3 answers
Stick up for 3 answers
DISQUALIFY (ant.) 7 answers
backstop 8 answers
DEFEND ONESELF 10 answers
DEFEND AGAINST ATTACK OR CRITICISM 10 answers
Give support to 11 answers
upraise 11 answers
Grubstake 12 answers
Vouch 15 answers
Bear up? 28 answers
Hoist 31 answers
prop 35 answers
Stabilize 35 answers
stabilise 39 answers
Tolerate. 43 answers
Preserve 44 answers
confirm 47 answers
Elevate 50 answers
Sustain. 50 answers
Defend 50 answers
Maintain 73 answers
Bear 75 answers
Raise 87 answers
Encourage 88 answers
Support 104 answers
BACK ___! 117 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
AEMZEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with UPHOLD (5)

Dimmesdale’s story as only an instance of that stubborn fidelity with which a man’s friends—and especially a clergyman’s—will sometimes uphold his character, when proofs, clear as the mid-day sunshine on the scarlet letter, establish him a false and sin-stained creature of the dust.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Indeed, she had not energy to fling it down, but had ceased to uphold it, and suffered it to press her to the earth.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
But, she uttered no sound; and so strong was the voice within her, representing that it was she of all the world who must uphold him in his misery and not augment it, that it quickly raised her, even from that shock.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
Hamilton is as justly chargeable to the upholders of the slave system, as drunkenness is chargeable on those who, by precept and example, or by indifference, uphold the drinking system.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1995
With a cultured parentage and a social caste to uphold him, he might have made a venturesome merchant or a West Point cadet.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008

Quotes with UPHOLD (3)

Aye me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.
Edmund Spenser Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves
The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever." Fullness of joy and eternal joy cannot be improved. Nothing is fuller than full, and nothing is longer than eternal. And this joy is owing to the presence of God, not the accomplishments of man. Therefore, if God wants to love us infinitely and delight us fully and eternally, he…
John Piper The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God
We are no longer so lacking in fantasy as to uphold the existence of a god.
Carl Einstein Bebuquin
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 21 times in crossword archives (1969–2023).