uphold

Speech parts

1. uphold - Verb

2. Uphold - Proper noun

Meaning

To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.

To aid by approval or encouragement; to countenance; as, to uphold a person in wrongdoing.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

continue maintain preserve support back keep bear protect respect promote defend observe champion sustain confirm
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Antonyms

baton billy birch homer rosewood wham
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Hypernyms

support keep hold maintain defend confirm

Hyponyms

sustain justify resume persist perpetuate prolong

Phrases with the word

to uphold uphold the law

Derivatives

upheld

Anagrams

holdup

Examples

You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense. Glenn Beck

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them. John Rawls

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself. Thomas More

I am a Canadian, a free Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship God in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind. John Diefenbaker

Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own... Whether it our own meaningless self we are upholding, or some doctrine devoid of evidence, we can do it only in a frenzy of faith. Eric Hoffer

To redeem and uphold in our need. Icelandic Proverb

Close letter words and terms

uphoard Uphoff uphoist uphold the law upholdable upholdatory