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Supporting

adjective

Furnishing support and encouragement. Synonym: encouraging.

Capable of bearing a structural load. Synonym: load-bearing.

noun

The act of bearing the weight of or strengthening. Synonym: support.

Support

verb

(past & past part. supported; pres. part. supporting)

Give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to. Synonym: back up. "Her children always backed her up"

Support materially or financially. "The scholarship supported me when I was in college"

Be behind; approve of. Synonyms: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for. "I backed Kennedy in 1960"

Be the physical support of; carry the weight of. Synonyms: hold, hold up, sustain. "He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam" , "What's holding that mirror?"

Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts. Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, sustain. "The evidence supports the defendant" Antonym: negate.

Adopt as a belief. Synonym: subscribe.

Support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm. Synonyms: bear out, corroborate, underpin.

Argue or speak in defense of. Synonyms: defend, fend for.

Play a subordinate role to (another performer).

10.

Be a regular customer or client of. Synonyms: keep going, patronage, patronise, patronize. "Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could"

11.

Put up with something or somebody unpleasant. Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, tolerate. "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"