Synonyms of the word

support

• n. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
• n. Financial or other help.
• n. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
• n. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure…
• n. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose…
• n. Evidence.
• n. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
• n. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
• v. (transitive) To keep from falling.
• v. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
• v. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
• v. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
• v. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
• v. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
• v. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories,…
• v. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
• v. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
• v. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.

abide

• v. Accept, comply or act in accordance.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To wait in expectation.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To pause; to delay.
• v. (intransitive) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition;…
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To have one's abode; to dwell; to reside; to sojourn.
• v. (intransitive) To endure; to remain; to last.
• v. (transitive) To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
• v. (transitive) To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
• v. (transitive) To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
• v. (transitive) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand.
• v. (transitive) To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for.
• v. A component in at least one phrasal verb: abide by.

accompaniment

• n. (music) A part, usually performed by instruments, that gives support or adds to the background in music,…
• n. That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness…

act

• n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
• n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
• n. The process of doing something.
• n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
• n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
• n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
• n. (countable) Any organized activity.
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
• n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To do something.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
• v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
• v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
• v. (transitive) To play (a role).
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

activity

• n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
• n. Something done as an action or a movement.
• n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
• n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).

affirm

• v. To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.
• v. To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
• v. To support or encourage.
• v. To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (law) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or…

agree

• v. (intransitive) To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become…
• v. (intransitive) To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to.
• v. (transitive, Britain, Ireland) To yield assent to; to approve.
• v. (intransitive) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange…
• v. (intransitive) To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond.
• v. (intransitive, now always with with) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
• v. (intransitive, grammar) To correspond to in gender, number, case, or person.
• v. (intransitive, law) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.

aid

• n. (uncountable) Help; assistance; succor, relief.
• n. (countable) A helper; an assistant.
• n. (countable) Something which helps; a material source of help.
• n. (countable, Britain) An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose,…
• n. (countable, Britain) An exchequer loan.
• n. (countable, law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
• n. (countable) An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.
• v. (transitive) To (give) support (to); to further the progress of; to help; to assist.

allow

• v. (transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
• v. (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
• v. (transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
• v. To not bar or obstruct.
• v. (intransitive) To acknowledge or concede.
• v. (transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.
• v. (transitive) To render physically possible.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
• v. (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

approve

• v. (transitive) To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm.
• v. (transitive) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
• v. (intransitive) To consider or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.
• v. (transitive, English Law) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit — said especially of waste…

argue

• v. (obsolete) To prove.
• v. To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply.
• v. (intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints.
• v. (intransitive) To have an argument, a quarrel.
• v. (transitive) To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).

assist

• v. (archaic) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
• v. (archaic) To attend (with at).
• v. To help.
• v. (sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
• v. (medicine) To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy.
• n. A helpful action or an act of giving.
• n. (sports) The act of helping another player score points or goals.

assistance

• n. Aid; help; the act or result of assisting.

back

• adj. (not comparable) Near the rear.
• adj. (not comparable) Not current.
• adj. (not comparable) Far from the main area.
• adj. In arrear; overdue.
• adj. Moving or operating backward.
• adj. (comparable, phonetics) Produced in the back of the mouth.
• adv. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
• adv. Away from the front or from an edge.
• adv. In a manner that impedes.
• adv. In a reciprocal manner.
• n. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest…
• n. That which is farthest away from the front.
• n. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
• n. A support or resource in reserve.
• n. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
• n. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
• n. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
• n. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
• v. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
• v. (transitive) To support.
• v. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise…
• v. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to…
• v. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
• v. (Britain, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
• v. (transitive) To push or force backwards.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
• v. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
• v. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
• v. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
• v. (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend…
• v. To row backward with (oars).
• n. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers,…
• n. A ferryboat.

backing

• n. Support, especially financial.
• n. A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
• n. (music) Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer.
• adj. (music) That which provides support for the main performer.
• v. present participle of back.

backup

• n. A reserve or substitute.
• n. (computing) A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover…
• n. An accumulation of material caused by a (partial) obstruction or (complete) blockage of the flow or movement…
• n. (law enforcement) reinforcements.
• adj. Standby, reserve or extra.
• adj. (computing) That is intended as a backup.
• v. Misspelling of back up.

bear

• n. A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and…
• n. (figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
• n. (finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
• n. (slang, US) A state policeman (short for smokey bear).
• n. (slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
• n. (engineering) A portable punching machine.
• n. (nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
• v. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
• adj. (finance, investments) Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices…
• v. (transitive) To support or sustain; to hold up.
• v. (transitive) To carry something.
• v. (transitive) To be equipped with (something).
• v. (transitive) To wear or display.
• v. (transitive, with witness) To declare as testimony.
• v. (transitive) To put up with something.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to someone or something (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
• v. (intransitive) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
• v. (intransitive) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
• v. (intransitive) To endure with patience; to be patient.
• v. (intransitive, usually with on, upon, or against) To press.
• v. (trasitive, intransitive) To take effect; to have influence or force.
• v. (intransitive, usually with on or upon) To relate or refer.
• v. (transitive) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To conduct; to bring (a person).
• v. (transitive) To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.
• v. (transitive) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain or win.
• v. (transitive) To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
• v. (transitive) To admit or be capable of; to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
• v. (transitive) To manage, wield, or direct; to behave or conduct (oneself).
• v. (transitive) To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.
• n. (colloquial) Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
• n. Alternative spelling of bere (“barley”).

brook

• v. (transitive, obsolete, except in Scots) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.
• v. (transitive) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract…
• n. A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
• n. (Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
• n. (Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground.

check

• n. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
• n. An inspection or examination.
• n. A control; a limit or stop.
• n. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).
• n. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).
• n. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
• n. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
• n. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines.
• n. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
• n. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
• n. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
• n. A small chink or crack.
• v. To inspect; to examine.
• v. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
• v. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have…
• v. To control, limit, or halt.
• v. To verify or compare with a source of information.
• v. To leave in safekeeping.
• v. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
• v. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have…
• v. (contact sports) To hit another player with one's body.
• v. (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
• v. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check.
• v. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
• v. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
• v. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
• v. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
• v. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
• v. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
• v. To act as a curb or restraint.
• v. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
• n. (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered…

concord

• n. A state of agreement; harmony; union.
• n. (obsolete) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league.
• n. (grammar) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person or case.
• n. (law, obsolete) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which…
• n. (probably influenced by chord, music) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant…
• n. A variety of sweet American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters; a Concord…
• v. (intransitive) To agree; to act together.

concur

• v. To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond.
• v. To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect.
• v. (obsolete) To run together; to meet.

confirm

• v. To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
• v. (transitive, Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
• v. To assure the accuracy of previous statements.

correspond

• v. (intransitive, constructed with to) to be equivalent or similar in character, quantity, quality, origin,…
• v. (intransitive, constructed with with) to exchange messages, especially by postal letter, over a period…

corroborate

• v. (transitive) To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.
• v. (transitive) To make strong; to strengthen.

countenance

• n. Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.
• n. Favour; support; encouragement.
• n. (obsolete) Superficial appearance; show; pretense.
• n. calm facial expression, composure, self-control.
• v. (transitive) To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.

defend

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To prohibit, forbid.
• v. (transitive) To ward off attacks from; to fight to protect; to guard.
• v. (transitive) To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
• v. (transitive, law) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
• v. (sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing…
• v. (sports) To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did…
• v. (poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.

device

• n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
• n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
• n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
• n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.
• n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience;…
• n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs…
• n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
• n. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
• n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
• n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
• n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

digest

• v. (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for…
• v. (transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and…
• v. (transitive) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive…
• v. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical…
• v. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
• v. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
• v. (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief).
• n. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads…
• n. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
• n. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine…
• n. (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.

documentation

• n. Something transposed from a thought to a document; the written account of an idea.
• n. (computing, mechanical engineering) Documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software…
• n. (programming) Comments that explain the usage of individual functions, libraries and blocks of code.

endorse

• v. To support, to back, to give one's approval to, especially officially or by signature.
• v. To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it…
• v. To give an endorsement.
• n. (heraldry) A diminutive of the pale, usually appearing in pairs on either side of a pale.

endure

• v. (intransitive) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships.
• v. (transitive) To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
• v. (intransitive) To last.
• v. To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under…
• v. (transitive) To suffer patiently.
• v. (obsolete) To indurate.

fit

• adj. Suitable, proper.
• adj. Adapted to a purpose or environment.
• adj. In good shape; physically well.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Good looking, fanciable, attractive, beautiful.
• adj. Prepared; ready.
• v. (transitive) To be suitable for.
• v. (transitive) To conform to in size and shape.
• v. (intransitive) To be of the right size and shape.
• v. (transitive, with to) To make conform in size and shape.
• v. (transitive) To be in agreement with.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
• v. (transitive) To equip or supply.
• v. (transitive) To make ready.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To be seemly.
• v. To be proper or becoming.
• v. (intransitive) To be in harmony.
• n. The degree to which something fits.
• n. Conformity of elements one to another.
• n. The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
• n. (advertising) how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
• n. (statistics) goodness of fit.
• n. (archaic) A section of a poem or ballad.
• n. A seizure or convulsion.
• n. (medicine) A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
• n. A sudden outburst of emotion.
• n. A sudden burst (of an activity).
• v. (intransitive, medicine) To suffer a fit.

foster

• adj. Providing parental care to unrelated children.
• adj. Receiving such care.
• adj. Related by such care.
• n. (countable, obsolete) A forester.
• n. (uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.
• v. (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring; or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
• v. (transitive) To cultivate and grow something.
• v. (transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.

funding

• v. present participle of fund.
• n. The action of the verb fund.
• n. Money provided as funds.

gibe

• n. A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer or taunt.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a jibe (2, 3).
• v. (intransitive) To agree.
• v. (transitive) To cause to execute a gibe (2, 3).
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to mock.

give

• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
• v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
• v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
• v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
• v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
• v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
• v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
• v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
• v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
• v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
• v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
• v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
• v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
• v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
• v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
• v. To be going on, to be occurring.
• n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

help

• n. (uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.
• n. (usually uncountable) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
• n. Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
• n. (usually uncountable) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation…
• n. (uncountable, euphemistic) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social…
• v. (transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To contribute in some way to.
• v. (intransitive) To provide assistance.
• v. (transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive…
• interj. A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance.

hold

• adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To contain or store.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
• v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
• v. To take place, to occur.
• v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
• v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
• n. A grasp or grip.
• n. A place where animals are held for safety.
• n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
• n. Something reserved or kept.
• n. Power over someone or something.
• n. The ability to persist.
• n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
• n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
• n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
• n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
• n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
• n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
• n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
• n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
• n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
• n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
• n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

indorse

• v. (Britain, India, rare) Alternative form of endorse.

influence

• n. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development…
• n. An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
• n. A person or thing exerting such power or action.
• n. (astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the…
• n. (obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx.
• n. (electricity) Electrostatic induction.
• v. (transitive) To have an affect on using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify,…
• v. (intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.

jibe

• n. (nautical) A maneuver in which the stern of a sailing boat or ship crosses the wind, typically resulting…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To perform a jibe.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To cause to execute a jibe.
• v. (intransitive) To agree.
• n. A facetious or insulting remark, a jeer or taunt.
• v. (intransitive) To make a mocking remark or remarks, jeer.
• v. (transitive) To mock, taunt.
• v. (transitive) To say in a mocking or taunting manner.

keep

• v. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
• v. (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To hold or be held in a state.
• v. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.
• v. (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate.
• v. (transitive, dated) To confine oneself to; not to quit; to remain in.
• v. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
• n. (obsolete) Care, notice.
• n. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. (According to, the…
• n. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
• n. The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.
• n. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
• n. (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
• n. (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.

let

• v. (transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
• v. (transitive) To leave.
• v. (transitive) To allow the release of (a fluid).
• v. (transitive) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
• v. (transitive) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
• v. (transitive) Used to introduce an imperative in the first or third person.
• v. (transitive, obsolete except with know) To cause (+ bare infinitive).
• n. The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.
• v. (archaic) To hinder, prevent, impede, hamper, cumber; to obstruct (someone or something).
• v. (obsolete) To prevent someone from doing something; also to prevent something from happening.
• v. (obsolete) To tarry or delay.
• n. An obstacle or hindrance.
• n. (tennis) The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.

livelihood

• n. (obsolete) The course of someone's life; a person's lifetime, or their manner of living; conduct, behaviour.
• n. A person's means of supporting themself.
• n. (now rare) Property which brings in an income; an estate.
• n. (obsolete) Liveliness; appearance of life.

living

• v. present participle of live.
• adj. Having life.
• adj. In use or existing.
• adj. Of everyday life.
• adj. True to life.
• adj. Used as an intensifier.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being alive.
• n. Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood.
• n. A style of life.
• n. (canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of…

match

• n. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
• n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
• n. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
• n. A marriage.
• n. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
• n. Suitability.
• n. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
• n. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
• n. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
• n. An agreement or compact.
• n. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly…
• v. (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
• v. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
• v. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
• v. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove…
• n. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being…

nurture

• n. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.
• n. That which nourishes; food; diet.
• n. The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual; see also nature.
• v. To nourish or nurse.
• v. (figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.

okay

• n. Alternative spelling of OK.
• v. Alternative spelling of OK.
• adj. Alternative spelling of OK.
• adv. Alternative spelling of OK.
• interj. Alternative spelling of OK.

operation

• n. The method by which a device performs its function.
• n. The method or practice by which actions are done.
• n. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
• n. A planned undertaking.
• n. A business or organization.
• n. (medicine) A surgical procedure.
• n. (computing, logic, mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the…
• n. (military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).
• n. (obsolete) Effect produced; influence.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

patronage

• n. The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
• n. Customers collectively; clientele; business.
• n. A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain.
• n. (politics) Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political…
• n. Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
• n. The right of nomination to political office.
• n. (Britain, law) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
• v. (transitive) To support by being a patron of.
• v. (transitive) To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize; to patronise; to support; to keep going.

patronise

• v. To make a patron.
• v. To treat as inferior unfairly, talk down to, treat condescendingly.
• v. To make oneself a regular customer of a business.

patronize

• v. (transitive) To make a patron.
• v. (transitive) To act as a patron; to protect, defend, support.
• v. (transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority; to talk down to; to treat condescendingly.
• v. (transitive) To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.

permit

• v. (now archaic, rare) To hand over, resign (something to someone).
• v. (transitive) To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for.
• v. (transitive) To allow (someone) to do something; to give permission to.
• v. (intransitive) To allow for, to make something possible.
• v. (intransitive) To allow, to admit (of).
• v. (transitive, pronounced like noun) To grant formal authorization for (something).
• v. (transitive, pronounced like noun) To attempt to obtain or succeed in obtaining formal authorization for…
• n. (obsolete) Formal permission.
• n. An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal.
• n. A pompano of the species Trachinotus falcatus.

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

proof

• n. (countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act…
• n. (uncountable) The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief;…
• n. The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or…
• n. (obsolete) Experience of something.
• n. (uncountable, obsolete) Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
• n. (countable, printing) A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.
• n. (countable, logic, mathematics) A sequence of statements consisting of axioms, assumptions, statements…
• n. (countable, mathematics) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove,…
• n. (obsolete) Armour of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armour of proof.
• n. (US) A measure of the alcohol content of liquor. Originally, in Britain, 100 proof was defined as 57.1%…
• adj. Used in proving or testing.
• adj. Firm or successful in resisting.
• adj. (of alcoholic liquors) Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To proofread.
• v. (transitive) To make resistant, especially to water.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To allow to rise (of yeast-containing dough).
• v. (transitive, cooking) To test the activeness of (yeast).

reason

• n. A cause.
• n. (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception,…
• n. (obsolete) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
• n. (mathematics, obsolete) Ratio; proportion.
• v. (intransitive) To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process…
• v. (intransitive) Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute;…
• v. (intransitive) To converse; to compare opinions.
• v. (transitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to…
• v. (transitive, rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
• v. (transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.
• v. (transitive, with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
• v. (transitive, usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.

reenforcement

• n. Alternative form of reinforcement.

reinforcement

• n. (uncountable) The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.
• n. (countable) A thing that reinforces.
• n. (in the plural) Additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action.
• n. (uncountable, behavioral psychology) The process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes…

represent

• v. (transitive) To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit…
• v. (transitive) To portray visually; to delineate.
• v. (transitive) To portray by mimicry or acting; to act the part or character of.
• v. (transitive) To stand or act in the place of; to perform the duties, exercise the rights, or otherwise…
• v. (politics, transitive) To act as a representative of (a country, state, district etc.).
• v. (transitive) To portray to another using language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement…
• v. (transitive) To give an account of; to describe.
• v. (transitive) To serve as a sign or symbol of.
• v. (transitive) To bring a certain sensation of into the mind; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended;…
• v. (transitive) To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something…
• v. (transitive) To constitute, to make up, to be a example of.
• v. (sports, transitive) To participate as a team member.
• v. (intransitive) (African American Vernacular) To constitute a good example or symbol of a group of people;…

resource

• n. Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.
• n. A person's capacity to deal with difficulty.
• v. To supply with resources.

sanction

• n. An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.
• n. A penalty, punishment, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted…
• n. A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying either of the above.
• v. (transitive) To ratify; to make valid.
• v. (transitive) To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance.
• v. (transitive) To penalize (a State etc.) with sanctions.

stand

• v. (heading) To position or be positioned physically.
• v. (heading) To position or be positioned mentally.
• v. (heading) To position or be positioned socially.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified…
• v. (intransitive) To remain without ruin or injury.
• v. (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
• n. The act of standing.
• n. A defensive position or effort.
• n. A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
• n. A period of performance in a given location or venue.
• n. A device to hold something upright or aloft.
• n. The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
• n. A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
• n. (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and…
• n. A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
• n. A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
• n. A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
• n. (US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
• n. (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural).
• n. (cricket) A partnership.
• n. (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.
• n. (obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing.
• n. (dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
• n. A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own…
• n. (obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.

stomach

• n. An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
• n. (informal) The belly.
• n. (obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
• n. (obsolete) Appetite.
• n. (figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
• v. (transitive) To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be angry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.

subscribe

• v. (ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for…
• v. To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan.
• v. To believe or agree with a theory or an idea.
• v. To pay money to be a member of an organization.
• v. (intransitive) To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
• v. (transitive) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.
• v. (business and finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.
• v. (transitive) To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
• v. (archaic) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
• v. (obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
• v. (obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To declare over one's signature; to publish.

substantiate

• v. (transitive) To verify something by supplying evidence; to authenticate or corroborate.
• v. (transitive) To give material form or substance to something; to embody; to record in documents.

substantiation

• n. The act of substantiating.
• n. Something which substantiates; evidence, proof.

suffer

• v. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
• v. (intransitive) To feel pain.
• v. (intransitive) To become worse.
• v. (transitive) To endure, undergo.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To allow.

supporting

• adj. That supports.
• v. present participle of support.
• n. That which supports something else; a support.

sustain

• n. (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
• v. (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
• v. (transitive) To provide for or nourish.
• v. (transitive) To encourage (something).
• v. (transitive) To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To confirm, prove, or corroborate.
• v. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
• v. To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.

sustenance

• n. Something that provides support or nourishment.

tally

• adj. (Britain) Used as a mild intensifier: very (almost exclusively used by the upper classes).
• interj. (radio, aviation) Target sighted.
• n. Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number;.
• n. Later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
• n. Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially…
• n. One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
• n. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
• n. A tally shop.
• n. A ribbon on a sailor's cap bearing the name of the ship or the (part of) the navy to which they belong.
• v. (transitive) To count something.
• v. (transitive) To record something by making marks.
• v. (transitive) To make things correspond or agree with each other.
• v. (intransitive) To keep score.
• v. (intransitive) To correspond or agree.
• v. (nautical) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
• adv. (obsolete) In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.

tolerate

• v. To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference.

underpin

• v. (transitive) To support from below with props or masonry.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To give support to; to corroborate.

validation

• n. The act of validating something.
• n. Something, such as a certificate, that validates something; attestation, authentication, confirmation,…
• n. The process whereby others confirm the validity of one's emotions.

voice

• n. Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered…
• n. (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; —…
• n. The tone or sound emitted by an object.
• n. The faculty or power of utterance.
• n. Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion.
• n. Opinion or choice expressed; judgment.
• n. (archaic) Command; precept.
• n. One who speaks; a speaker.
• n. (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means…
• n. (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
• n. (Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages…
• v. (transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce.
• v. (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly.
• v. (transitive) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To vote; to elect; to appoint.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To clamor; to cry out.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to…
• v. (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character.