uphold

up·hold

(ŭp-hōld′)

tr.v. up·held (-hĕld′), up·hold·ing, up·holds

1. To hold aloft; raise: upheld the banner proudly.

2. To prevent from falling or sinking; support: beams that uphold the roof.

3. To maintain or affirm: uphold a standard of behavior. See Synonyms at support.

up·hold′er n.

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uphold

(ʌpˈhəʊld)

vb (tr) , -holds, -holding or -held

1. to maintain, affirm, or defend against opposition or challenge

2. to give moral support or inspiration to

3. rare to support physically

4. to lift up

upˈholder n

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up•hold

(ʌpˈhoʊld)

v.t. -held, -hold•ing.

1. to support or defend, as against opposition or criticism.

2. to keep up or keep from sinking; support.

3. to lift upward; raise.

[1175–1225]

up•hold′er, n.

uphold

Past participle: upheld
Gerund: upholding

Imperative
uphold
uphold

Present
I uphold
you uphold
he/she/it upholds
we uphold
you uphold
they uphold

Preterite
I upheld
you upheld
he/she/it upheld
we upheld
you upheld
they upheld

Present Continuous
I am upholding
you are upholding
he/she/it is upholding
we are upholding
you are upholding
they are upholding

Present Perfect
I have upheld
you have upheld
he/she/it has upheld
we have upheld
you have upheld
they have upheld

Past Continuous
I was upholding
you were upholding
he/she/it was upholding
we were upholding
you were upholding
they were upholding

Past Perfect
I had upheld
you had upheld
he/she/it had upheld
we had upheld
you had upheld
they had upheld

Future
I will uphold
you will uphold
he/she/it will uphold
we will uphold
you will uphold
they will uphold

Future Perfect
I will have upheld
you will have upheld
he/she/it will have upheld
we will have upheld
you will have upheld
they will have upheld

Future Continuous
I will be upholding
you will be upholding
he/she/it will be upholding
we will be upholding
you will be upholding
they will be upholding

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been upholding
you have been upholding
he/she/it has been upholding
we have been upholding
you have been upholding
they have been upholding

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been upholding
you will have been upholding
he/she/it will have been upholding
we will have been upholding
you will have been upholding
they will have been upholding

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been upholding
you had been upholding
he/she/it had been upholding
we had been upholding
you had been upholding
they had been upholding

Conditional
I would uphold
you would uphold
he/she/it would uphold
we would uphold
you would uphold
they would uphold

Past Conditional
I would have upheld
you would have upheld
he/she/it would have upheld
we would have upheld
you would have upheld
they would have upheld

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Verb	1.	uphold - keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions" preserve, carry on, continue, bear on resume, restart, re-start - take up or begin anew; "We resumed the negotiations" hang in, persevere, persist, hang on, hold on - be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions" go forward, proceed, continue - move ahead; travel onward in time or space; "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now" perpetuate - cause to continue or prevail; "perpetuate a myth" sustain, keep up, prolong - lengthen or extend in duration or space; "We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible"; "prolong the treatment of the patient"; "keep up the good work" mummify - preserve while making lifeless; "mummified ideas and institutions should be gotten rid of" hold, keep, maintain - keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes" continue, go on, keep, go along, proceed - continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight"
	2.	uphold - stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals defend, fend for, support - argue or speak in defense of; "She supported the motion to strike"
	3.	uphold - support against an opponent; "The appellate court upheld the verdict" maintain vindicate, justify - show to be right by providing justification or proof; "vindicate a claim" reassert, confirm - strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"

uphold

verb

1. support, back, defend, aid, champion, encourage, maintain, promote, sustain, advocate, stand by, stick up for (informal) upholding the artist's right to creative freedom

2. confirm, support, sustain, endorse, approve, justify, hold to, ratify, vindicate, validate The crown court upheld the magistrate's decision.

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uphold

verb

1. To move (something) to a higher position:

boost, elevate, heave, hoist, lift, pick up, raise, rear, take up, uplift, upraise, uprear.

2. To keep from yielding or failing during stress or difficulty:

bolster, buoy (up), prop, support, sustain.

3. To sustain the weight of:

bear, carry, hold, support.

4. To aid the cause of by approving or favoring:

advocate, back, champion, endorse, get behind, plump for, recommend, side with, stand behind, stand by, support.

Idioms: align oneself with, go to bat for, take the part of.

Translations

يُثَبِّتيُحافِظ علىيَدْعَم، يَسْنِد

podpořitpotvrditudržovat

opretholdestadfæstestøtte

billigen konservieren unterstützen aufrechterhalten

apoyar confirmar mantener sostener

pitää ylläylläpitää

confirmer maintenir soutenir appuyer

halda viî/uppistaîfestastyrkja, styîja

sostenere confermare

apstiprinātatbalstītievērotsaglabāt

gi en medhold

suportar

vzdrževati

desteklemek onaylamak sürdürmektasdik etmek

支持确认维持

uphold

[ʌpˈhəʊld] (upheld (pt, pp)) VT

1. (= sustain) → mantener, sostener; (= support) → apoyar, defender

2. (Jur) → confirmar

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uphold

[ʌpˈhəʊld] [upheld] [ʌpˈhɛld] (pt, pp) vt

[+ law, principle] → faire respecter; [+ right] → soutenir, faire respecter

(LAW) [court of law] [+ verdict, conviction] → confirmer; [+ complaint] → maintenir

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uphold

pret, ptp <upheld>

vt (= sustain) tradition, principle, honour → wahren; the law → hüten; right, values → schützen; (= support) person, decision, objection → (unter)stützen; complaint → anerkennen; (Jur) verdict, appeal → bestätigen

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uphold

[ʌpˈhəʊld] (upheld (pt, pp)) vt (frm) (law, principle) → difendere; (decision, verdict) → confermare

uphold

(apˈhəuld) – past tense, past participle upˈheld (-ˈheld) – verb

1. to support (a person's action). His family upholds (him in) his present action.

2. to confirm (eg a claim, legal judgement etc). The decision of the judge was upheld by the court.

3. to maintain (eg a custom). The old traditions are still upheld in this village.

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Now to say that the honour I here mean, and which was, I thought, all the honour I could be supposed to mean, will uphold, much less dictate an untruth, is to assert an absurdity too shocking to be conceived."

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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.

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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.

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When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news travelled slowly across the land by horseback, and across the ocean by boat.

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Ah, it's a great thing in a man's life to be able to stand by a neighbour and uphold him in such trouble as that."

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But, John, who is it that you would uphold in this knightly and pleasing fashion?"

I will uphold the curve of her eyelashes, for it tickleth my very heart-root to think of her.

"Sir knight," said the prince, "you speak like a brave man, and our cousin of France is happy in having a cavalier who is so fit to uphold his cause either with tongue or with sword.

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To conclude, there is no decaying merchant, or inward beggar, hath so many tricks to uphold the credit of their wealth, as these empty persons have, to maintain the credit of their sufficiency.

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"Libertarians, at least some, have moved to not just a position of 'live and let live' on the whole, but to a more aggressive defense of a kind of pure libertarianism, a denial of the public's right to uphold moral standards."

For heaven's sake: religious accommodation and other openings for big-government conservatism

Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which supported passage of both RLUIPA and its broader predecessor, plans to file a friend-of-the-court brief urging the high court to uphold the federal law as a constitutionally sound way to ensure religious liberty.

Religious liberty: Supreme Court agrees to consider federal religious liberty law

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