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uphold Definition

up·hold (up hōld)

transitive verb -·held, -·hold·ing

  1. to hold up; raise
  2. to keep from falling; support
  3. to give moral or spiritual support or encouragement to
  4. to decide in favor of; agree with and support against opposition; sustain

uphold Related Forms
up·holder noun
uphold Synonyms

uphold

v.

  1. To hold up

    brace, buttress, prop; see support 1.

  2. To maintain

    confirm, sustain, back up; see support 2. See syn. study at support.

uphold Usage Examples

Object

  • complaint: We did not uphold the complaint against the PCT.
  • dignity: Principle: Members of the museum profession should observe accepted standards and laws and uphold the dignity and honor of their profession.
  • conviction: A subsequent appeal in December 1999 upheld that conviction.
  • ruling: Nevertheless, the Court was convinced of the increased risk of injury caused by Culkin's exposure to asbestos and upheld the 1993 ruling.
  • tenet: That explains why we must always uphold the basic tenets of Marxism.

Preposition: on

  • appeal: Note that this decision has been upheld on appeal.
  • ground: However, in this case the ET's finding of unfair dismissal was upheld on the grounds of the company's behavior.

Subject

  • tribunal: Its decision was upheld by a valuation tribunal but quashed on appeal.
  • court: You have almost no rights that you can rely on to be upheld by a court.

Modifying Another Word

  • partially: We investigated 42 allegations of maladministration, 9 of which were upheld or partially upheld.
  • unanimously: The Law Lords unanimously upheld the Court of Appeal's decision to overturn the ban on the license originally imposed by the High Court.
  • proudly: Motor Caravan Magazine proudly upholds many traditions - our annual Quality Awards, for example, or our comprehensive Insurance Survey.
  • consistently: All of these are deeply relevant to the post-tsunami response and must be consistently upheld by every agency.
  • thereby: The President's discretionary foreign policy powers to establish different standards for NGOs and foreign governments were thereby upheld.
  • therefore: The court therefore upheld the parents ' challenge to the Secretary's decision.

Used with why or when

  • what: Sadly, believers in the past have often been known to resort to forgery to uphold what they have little evidence for in fact.

Preposition: in

  • case: Complaints were not upheld in 217 cases, and upheld - in whole or part - in 162 cases.

Preposition: by

  • tribunal: Its decision was upheld by a valuation tribunal but quashed on appeal.
  • court: You have almost no rights that you can rely on to be upheld by a court.

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