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Definition of maintaining : of Maintain

Synonyms:

keeping, reserving, saving, preserving, conserving

prolonging, persevering, protracting, sustaining, extending, persisting, continuing, abiding

deeming, believing, presuming, judging, concluding, assuming, supposing, holding, surmising, taking for granted, trusting, understanding, crediting, giving faith, gathering, assenting, putting faith in

certifying, setting down, attesting, adjuring, proclaiming, accepting, claiming, propounding, stating, contending, pronouncing, supporting, endorsing, corroborating, professing, approving, declaring, expressing, warranting, submitting, acknowledging, avouching, admitting, pledging, ratifying, validating, assuring, affirming, verifying, testifying, averring, promising, asserting

harmonizing, framing, setting, regulating, classing, grading, programming, marshalling, fixing, grouping, arraying, separating, normalizing, systematizing, sorting, sifting, scheming, preparing, orchestrating, adjusting, rating, establishing, shaping, structuring, balancing, righting, casting, organizing, subordinating, screening, devising, schematizing, scheduling, forming, mediating, stabilizing, controlling, plotting, pigeonholing, stratifying, typing, arranging, categorizing, settling, methodizing, composing, unifying, planning, placing, collating, designing, scoring, rationalizing, classifying, ranking, unsnarling, ordering, integrating, charting

preventing, hindering, retaining

securing, protecting, sheltering, shielding, guarding, safeguarding, defending, covering

Usage examples:

• Similarly with regard to maintaining a continued interest in life. - "The Law and the Word", Thomas Troward.
• The colonists, of course, are under our protection, maintaining full citizenship unless they request independence, which is freely granted. - "Citadel", Algirdas Jonas Budrys.
• " Very sour, I think," returns Mr. Potts, hitting off Grainger's voice to a nicety, while maintaining a countenance sufficiently innocent to border on the imbecile. - "Molly Bawn", Margaret Wolfe Hamilton.