maintain
Verb
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subtypes:
- pressurise, pressurize - maintain a certain pressure
- bear on, carry on, continue, preserve, uphold - keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
- hold over - keep in a position or state from an earlier period of time
- conserve - keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change
- preserve - keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing
- distance - keep at a distance
- housekeep - maintain a household; take care of all business related to a household
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is a type of: keep - look after; be the keeper of; have charge ofsubtypes:
- embalm - preserve a dead body
- plastinate - preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes
- hold the line - hold the line on prices; keep the price of something constant
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is a type of: insist, take a firm stand - be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budgesubtypes:same as: assert, asseverate
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same as: keep
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same as: keep
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is a type of: affirm - say yes tosubtypes: vindicate - maintain, uphold, or defendsame as: defend
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same as: uphold
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