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v. To keep up or carry on; continue: maintain good relations.

v. To keep in an existing state; preserve or retain: maintain one's composure.

v. To keep in a condition of good repair or efficiency: maintain two cars.

v. To provide for; support: maintain a family.

v. To keep in existence; sustain: enough food to maintain life.

v. To defend or hold against criticism or attack: maintained his stand on taxes.

v. To declare to be true; affirm: maintained her innocence.

v. To adhere or conform to; keep: maintain a busy schedule.

v. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline

v. To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish.

v. To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.

v. To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed.

v. To affirm; to support or defend by argument.

To hold in an existing state or condition; keep in existence or continuance; preserve from lapse, decline, failure, or cessation; keep up: as, to maintain an upright attitude; to maintain a conversation.

To furnish means for the subsistence or existence of; sustain or assist with the means of livelihood; provide for; support: as, to maintain a family or an army; to maintain a costly equipage.

To hold fast; keep in possession; preserve from capture or loss: as, to maintain one's ground in battle or in argument; to maintain an advantage.

To give support or encouragement to; uphold; countenance; vindicate, as by defense or adjudication.

To uphold by argument or assertion; hold to: as, to maintain the doctrine of the Trinity.

To represent; denote.

Synonyms and Defend, Vindicate, etc. See assert.

To behave; conduct one's self.

2. To hold as true; hold.

v. stick to correctly or closely

v. have and exercise

v. support against an opponent

v. maintain by writing regular records

v. keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction

v. state categorically

v. maintain for use and service

v. supply with necessities and support

v. state or assert

v. keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g.,

"What I did say and do maintain is that formerly all objects displaying specified complexity (and particularly that subset of symbolic information) were recognized in an uncontested way as obviously the artifacts of intelligent agency."

alter    abjure   

maintained    maintaining    maintains   

have got    have    hold    record    enter    put down   

maintenance    maintainer   

holdover    bear on    pressurise    uphold    preserve    housekeep    distance    conserve    continue    pressurize   

maintainability   

allege    assert    vindicate    continue    support    affirm    sustain    defend    fight    preserver   

Alane    Aquitaine    Ayn    Bahrain    Biscayne    Blaine    Cain    Chain    Champagne    Champaign   

full-employment    blood horse    see-sawing    oxygen-breathing    cell    tractamorphic    anti-terrorist    8-foot-long    ever-deepening    life-and-death