Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of maintain is as below...

Dishonor :: Dishonor (v. t.) To deprive of honor; to disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to treat with indignity, or as unworthy in the sight of others; to stain the character of; to lessen the reputation of; as, the duelist dishonors himself to maintain his honor..

Nonresistant :: Nonresistant (n.) One who maintains that no resistance should be made to constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppressively exercised; one who advocates or practices absolute submission; also, one who holds that violence should never be resisted by force..

Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To affirm; to support or defend by argument.

Threap :: Threap (v. t.) To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so..

Brace :: Brace (n.) A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum..

Withhold :: Withhold (v. t.) To keep; to maintain; to retain.

Claim :: Claim (v./.) To assert; to maintain.

Ultramontane :: Ultramontane (n.) One who maintains extreme views favoring the pope's supremacy. See Ultramontanism.

Vertigo :: Vertigo (n.) Dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness..

Probabilist :: Probabilist (n.) One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions..

Regulate :: Regulate (v. t.) To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc..

Trade Union :: Trade union () An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc..

Ferry :: Ferry (v. t.) A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls..

Subsist :: Subsist (v. i.) To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live.

Baptist :: Baptist (n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist..

Knight :: Knight (n.) In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life..

Continue :: Continue (v. i.) To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance..

Amphictyony :: Amphictyony (n.) A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.

Affirmative :: Affirmative (n.) That which affirms as opposed to that which denies; an affirmative proposition; that side of question which affirms or maintains the proposition stated; -- opposed to negative; as, there were forty votes in the affirmative, and ten in the negative..

Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain..

Random Fonts

Most Popular