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also adopt, embrace, espouse; abet, aid, assist, prop (up), second; bolster, boost, buttress, reinforce; bail out, deliver, rescue, save

[3, 7] abet, aid, assist, back, help, prop—more at HELP

[4] bear, bolster, brace, buttress, carry, prop, shore, stay, uphold; also steady, truss, underlie

[6] bear out, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, validate, verify, vindicate—more at CONFIRM

2support noun 1 : the act of supporting : the state of being supported

2 : one that supports

Synonyms

[1] aid, assist, assistance, backing, boost, help, lift—more at HELP

[2] brace, bulwark, buttress, mount, shore, stay, underpinning; also column, pedestal, pilaster, pillar; arch, bracket, cantilever; crutch, mainstay, peg, post, stake, stanchion, stand, stilt, truss; base, foundation, frame

[2] dependence, mainstay, pillar, reliance, standby—more at DEPENDENCE

sup·port·able adjective : capable of being supported

Synonyms

bearable, endurable, sufferable, sustainable, tolerable—more at BEARABLE

defensible, justifiable, maintainable, sustainable, tenable—more at TENABLE

sup·port·er noun : one that supports or acts as a support

Synonyms

advocate, apostle, backer, booster, champion, exponent, friend, promoter, proponent—more at EXPONENT

abettor, ally, backer, confederate, sympathizer—more at ALLY

support group noun : a group of people with common experiences and concerns who provide emotional and moral support for one another

sup·pose verb sup·posed; sup·pos·ing 1 : to assume to be true (as for the sake of argument)

2 : EXPECT

3 : to think probable

4 : to hold as an opinion

— sup·pos·al noun

Synonyms

[1] assume, postulate, premise, presume, presuppose—more at ASSUME

[3] assume, conjecture, guess, presume, speculate, surmise, suspect—more at GUESS

[4] believe, consider, deem, feel, figure, guess, hold, imagine, think—more at BELIEVE

sup·posed adjective : held as an opinion; also : mistakenly believed

Synonyms

apparent, assumed, evident, ostensible, reputed, seeming—more at APPARENT

sup·pos·ed·ly adverb : as supposed

Synonyms

apparently, evidently, ostensibly, presumably, seemingly—more at APPARENTLY

sup·pos·ing conjunction : if by way of hypothesis : on the assumption that

sup·po·si·tion noun 1 : something that is supposed

2 : the act of supposing

Synonyms

conjecture, hypothesis, proposition, theory—more at THEORY

assumption, postulate, premise, presumption—more at ASSUMPTION

conjecture, guess, surmise—more at CONJECTURE

sup·pos·i·to·ry noun, plural -ries [ORIGIN: ME suppositorie, fr. AF, fr. ML suppositorium, fr. LL, neut. of suppositorius placed beneath]

: a small easily melted mass of usu. medicated material for insertion (as into the rectum)

sup·press verb 1 : to put down by authority or force : SUBDUE <~ a revolt>

2 : to keep from being known; also : to stop the publication or circulation of

3 : to hold back : REPRESS <~ anger> <~ a cough>

— sup·press·ible adjective

— sup·pres·sor noun

Synonyms

[1] clamp down, crack down, crush, put down, quash, quell, repress, silence, snuff, squash, squelch, subdue—more at QUELL

[3] choke, pocket, repress, smother, stifle, strangle, swallow; also control, govern, handle, manage; bridle, check, curb, hold back, quell; bottle up, contain, hold in; muffle, squelch

sup·pres·sion noun 1 : an act or instance of suppressing : the state of being suppressed

2 : the conscious intentional exclusion from consciousness of a thought or feeling

Synonyms

constraint, inhibition, repression, restraint, self-control, self-restraint

sup·pres·sant noun : an agent (as a drug) suppressing rather than eliminating something

sup·pu·rate verb -rat·ed; -rat·ing : to form or give off pus

— sup·pu·ra·tion noun

su·pra adverb : earlier in this writing : ABOVE

su·pra·na·tion·al adjective : going beyond national boundaries, authority, or interests <~ organizations>

su·prem·a·cist noun : an advocate of group supremacy

su·prem·a·cy noun, plural -cies 1 : the quality