All support synonyms
supΒ·port
S s verb support
- counterpoised β a counterbalancing weight.
- blockaded β the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
- humped β having a hump.
- espouse β Adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life).
- lasted β to go on or continue in time: The festival lasted three weeks.
- make a pitch for β to give verbal support to
- grin and bear it β to suffer trouble or hardship without complaint
- dragoons β Plural form of dragoon.
- juiced β intoxicated from alcohol; drunk: When arrested he was definitely juiced.
- charged up β to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- cotton to β If you cotton to someone or something, you start to like them.
- apprized β Simple past tense and past participle of apprize.
- babysit β If you babysit for someone or babysit their children, you look after their children while they are out.
- document β a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- nursle β (now rare, archaic) To nurture, train, raise (up) (a person).
- feathered β clothed, covered, or provided with feathers, as a bird or an arrow.
- bring up β When someone brings up a child, they look after it until it is an adult. If someone has been brought up in a certain place or with certain attitudes, they grew up in that place or were taught those attitudes when they were growing up.
- embolden β Give (someone) the courage or confidence to do something or to behave in a certain way.
- lift β to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
- cherish β If you cherish something such as a hope or a pleasant memory, you keep it in your mind for a long period of time.
- feathering β one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- in flames β to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
- minister β a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.
- fetch up β to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
- adopt β If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it.
- get in with β start to associate with
- live up to β to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
- dragoon β (especially formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop.
noun support
- invigoration β to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- hearse β a vehicle for conveying a dead person to the place of burial.
- kedge β to warp or pull (a ship) along by hauling on the cable of an anchor carried out from the ship and dropped.
- base β The base of something is its lowest edge or part.
- auspices β an augur of ancient Rome.
- obligement β Obligation.
- handiness β within easy reach; conveniently available; accessible: The aspirins are handy.
- blessing β A blessing is something good that you are grateful for.
- authorization β an authorizing or being authorized
- dependents β Plural form of dependent.
- counteractant β to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
- crutch β A crutch is a stick whose top fits round or under the user's arm, which someone with an injured foot or leg uses to support their weight when walking.
- good word β Used other than as an idiom: see good,β word.
- armrest β The armrests on a chair are the two pieces on either side that support your arms when you are sitting down.
- assurance β If you give someone an assurance that something is true or will happen, you say that it is definitely true or will definitely happen, in order to make them feel less worried.
- frame β a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
- interrelation β reciprocal relation.
- lectern β a reading desk in a church on which the Bible rests and from which the lessons are read during the church service.
- quickwittedness β The state or condition of being quickwitted.
- bollard β Bollards are short thick concrete posts that are used to prevent cars from going on to someone's land or on to part of a road.
- indivisibilities β not divisible; not separable into parts; incapable of being divided: one nation indivisible.
- gantry β a framework spanning a railroad track or tracks for displaying signals.