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maintain

English

  1. 🔊 state or assert
    “He maintained his innocence”
  2. 🔊 support against an opponent
    “The appellate court upheld the verdict”
  3. 🔊 maintain by writing regular records
    “keep a diary”
  4. 🔊 maintain for use and service
    “I keep a car in the countryside”
  5. 🔊 cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
    “hold in place”
  6. 🔊 stick to correctly or closely
    “The pianist kept time with the metronome”
  7. 🔊 state categorically
  8. 🔊 supply with necessities and support
    “She alone sustained her family”
  9. 🔊 have and exercise
    “wield power and authority”
  10. 🔊 keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
    “We preserve these archeological findings”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 mantener to maintain, to support
  2. 🔊 mantener to maintain, continue, to keep up
  3. 🔊 atener to maintain, to keep (a tradition, etc.)
  4. 🔊 mantener to maintain, to keep, to stay, to remain

Similar words

observe keep uphold assert asseverate defend keep sustain keep keep wield exert conserve preserve keep up keep hold abide accommodate account as advocate affirm afford afford support