What is another word for holding up?

Pronunciation: [hˈə͡ʊldɪŋ ˈʌp] (IPA)

"Holding up" is a phrase that can be used in various contexts and has different meanings. The following are synonyms for the term "holding up": 1. Supporting 2. Sustaining 3. Maintaining 4. Enduring 5. Withstanding 6. Resisting 7. Standing firm 8. Staying strong 9. Carrying on 10. Continuing 11. Propping up 12. Holding steady 13. Keeping up 14. Preserving 15. Persevering Each of these synonyms has its unique connotations and can be used depending on the context in which the phrase "holding up" is used. These words can help bring more clarity and precision to our communication.

What are the hypernyms for Holding up?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Holding up

  • It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
    Bertolt Brecht
  • It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
    Bertolt Brecht
  • If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as a matter of fact, certain persons do exist with an enormous capacity for friendship and for taking delight in other people's lives; and that such person know more of truth than if their hearts were not so big. The vice of ordinary Jack and Jill affection is not its intensity, but its exclusions and its jealousies. Leave those out, and you see that the ideal I am holding up before you, however impracticable to-day, yet contains nothing intrinsically absurd.
    William James
  • What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?
    Malcolm Lowry
  • Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within – for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.
    Suetonius

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