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uphold

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  • //ˌʌpˈhəʊld//

To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.

Verb

  1. 1

    To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.

    The mournful train/ Echoed her grief, [...]/ With groans, and hands upheld, to move his mind, /Besought his pity to their helpless kind

  2. 2

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

    A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

    That misbegotten devil, Falconbridge, /In spite of spite, alone upholds the day.

    Uttering such broken ejaculations Mrs. Hart burst into a passion of tears, and only Lord Chetwynde's strong arms prevented her from falling. / He upheld her.

    Wednesday June 02, 2021, Has the Northern Ireland Protocol undermined the United Kingdom? Similarly, both the Government and the EU argued at the time the deal was agreed that they were upholding the Good Friday Agreement by implementing the Protocol.

  3. 3

    To support by approval or encouragement; to vindicate; to confirm (something which has been questioned).

    let any moral come along and she would uphold it

    but there was still a connexion upheld among the different ideas, which succeeded each other.

    We must continually separate out and clearly articulate that support for the Jews as a people has nothing to do with upholding the policies of the Israeli state.

Herkunft

From Middle English upholden, equivalent to up- + hold. Compare Dutch ophouden (“to stop, cease, hold up”), German aufhalten (“to stop, halt, detain”). Compare also Middle Low German upholt, Old Norse upphald (“uphold, support”).

Formen

Präteritum
upheld
Partizip II
upheld, upholden
Partizip I
upholding
3. Person Singular
upholds
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