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Adjective supporting has 2 senses
- encouraging, supporting - furnishing support and encouragement; "the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher"
Antonym: unsupportive (indirect, via supportive)
- load-bearing, supporting - capable of bearing a structural load; "a supporting wall"
Antonym: nonbearing (indirect, via bearing)
Noun supporting has 1 sense
- support, supporting - the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening; "he leaned against the wall for support"
--1 is a kind of activity
--1 has particulars:
Verb support has 11 senses
- support, back up - give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to; "She supported him during the illness"; "Her children always backed her up"
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot support Sue
- support - support materially or financially; "he does not support his natural children"; "The scholarship supported me when I was in college"
--2 is one way to give
Sample sentences:
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- back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support - be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960"
--3 is one way to approve, O.K., okay, sanction
Sample sentences:
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- hold, support, sustain, hold up - be the physical support of; carry the weight of; "The beam holds up the roof"; "He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam"; "What's holding that mirror?"
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- confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm - establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- subscribe, support - adopt as a belief; "I subscribe to your view on abortion"
--6 is one way to agree, hold, concur, concord
Sample sentence:
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- corroborate, underpin, bear out, support - support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm; "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence"
--7 is one way to match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree
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- defend, support, fend for - argue or speak in defense of; "She supported the motion to strike"
--8 is one way to argue, reason
Sample sentences:
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- support - play a subordinate role to (another performer); "Olivier supported Gielgud beautifully in the second act"
--9 is one way to act, play, represent
Sample sentence:
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- patronize, patronise, patronage, support, keep going - be a regular customer or client of; "We patronize this store"; "Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could"
--10 is one way to foster, nurture
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- digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up - put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
--11 is one way to permit, allow, let, countenance
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