Crossword-Solution: UPHOLD
Dictionary
| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| UPHOLD | anagram | HOLDUP |
We have 40 clues for the answer “UPHOLD”
| Clue | Answers |
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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.
Indeed, she had not energy to fling it down, but had ceased to uphold it, and suffered it to press her to the earth.
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.
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.
With a cultured parentage and a social caste to uphold him, he might have made a venturesome merchant or a West Point cadet.
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.
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…
We are no longer so lacking in fantasy as to uphold the existence of a god.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1969–2023).