support
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～ support materially or financially; "he does not support his natural children"; "The scholarship supported me when I was in college"
support
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～ support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm; "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence"
support
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～ put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
support
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～ be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960"
support
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～ play a subordinate role to (another performer); "Olivier supported Gielgud beautifully in the second act"
support
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～ be a regular customer or client of; "We patronize this store"; "Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could"
support
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～ establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"
support
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～ give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to; "She supported him during the illness"; "Her children always backed her up"
support
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～ adopt as a belief; "I subscribe to your view on abortion"
support
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～ be the physical support of; carry the weight of; "The beam holds up the roof"; "He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam"; "What's holding that mirror?"
support
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～ argue or speak in defense of; "She supported the motion to strike"
suppose
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～ expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"
suppose
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～ express a supposition; "Let us say that he did not tell the truth"; "Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?"
suppose
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～ require as a necessary antecedent or precondition; "This step presupposes two prior ones"
suppose
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～ take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand; "I presuppose that you have done your work"
suppose
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～ to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
suppress
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～ bring under control by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires"
suppress
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～ lessen to the point of stopping; "suppress a yawn"; "this drug can suppress the hemorrhage"
suppress
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～ put out of one's consciousness
suppress
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～ come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists"