maintain
— Verb
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～ keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not keep up the building"; "children must be taught to conserve our national heritage"; "The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts"
maintain
— Verb
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～ cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., `keep clean'; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"
maintainable
— Adjective
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～ capable of being maintained
maintained
— Adjective
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～ kept in good condition
maintained
— Adjective
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～ continued in your keeping or use or memory; "in...the retained pattern of dancers and guests remembered"
maintainer
— Noun
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～ someone who upholds or maintains; "firm upholders of tradition"; "they are sustainers of the idea of democracy"
maintenance
— Noun
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～ the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community; "unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit"
maintenance
— Noun
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～ means of maintenance of a family or group
maintenance
— Noun
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～ activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; "he wrote the manual on car care"
maintenance
— Noun
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～ court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
maintenance
— Noun
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～ the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; "they were in want of sustenance"; "fishing was their main sustainment"
maintenon
— Noun
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～ French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife (1635-1719)
Madame de Maintenon
— Noun
– English
～ French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife (1635-1719)