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Definitions of uphold
  1. verb
    support against an opponent

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  2. verb
    keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
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  3. verb
    stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals
Definition that contains uphold
  • vindicate maintain, uphold, or defend
  • sustainer someone who upholds or maintains
  • maintainer someone who upholds or maintains
  • orangeman a member of a society founded in Ireland in 1795 to uphold Protestantism and the British sovereign
  • varuna in Vedism, god of the night sky who with his thousand eyes watches over human conduct and judges good and evil and punishes evildoers; often considered king of the Hindu gods and frequently paired with Mitra as an upholder of the world
  • upholder someone who upholds or maintains
  • smarta one of a group of brahmans who uphold nonsectarian orthodoxy according to the Vedanta school of Hinduism
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