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verb

Maintain v. t. (past & past part. maintained; pres. part. maintaining)

To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.

To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish. "God values... every one as he maintains his post."

To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail. "Maintain talk with the duke."

To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed. "Glad, by his labor, to maintain his life." "What maintains one vice would bring up two children."

To affirm; to support or defend by argument. "It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to be maintained by it."

Synonyms: To assert; vindicate; allege. See Assert.

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"Maintained" Quotes from Famous Books

... waiting when Dave called after supper, but for some time he maintained a flow of conversation relating to other things than the one they had met to discuss. At last, however, he appeared to summon his determination; he cleared his throat and settled himself in his chair—premonitory signs unusual in a man of ...

— Heart of the Sunset • Rex Beach

... actively participate in the debates, and from the outset endeavored to secure a much needed reform in Congressional proceedings. He always insisted that, in the discussion of important questions, order should be maintained. He followed every important bill in detail, and the questions which he directed to those who had these bills in charge showed that he had made himself a master of the subject. He took occasion to revise upon the floor many of ...

— Bay State Monthly, Volume II. No. 4, January, 1885 - A Massachusetts Magazine • Various

... more than twenty years I have maintained myself—no matter how, but without taxing you;—and now, I felt remorse for having suffered you to discard me,—now, when you are old and helpless, and, I heard, blind: and you might want aid, even from your poor good-for-nothing son. But I have done. Forget,—not my sins, but this interview. ...

— Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... which this narrative is extracted, assure us, that during the long period when the Welsh princes maintained their independence, the year 1187 was peculiarly marked as favourable to peace betwixt them and their warlike neighbours, the Lords Marchers, who inhabited those formidable castles on the frontiers of the ancient British, on the ruins of which the traveller gazes with wonder. ...

— The Betrothed • Sir Walter Scott

... with the Macquarie. Its whitewashed buildings bore outward testimony to the cleanliness and regularity of the inhabitants; and the respectful conduct of the prisoners under his charge, showed that Mr. Maxwell had maintained that discipline by which alone he could have secured respect to himself and success to his exertions, at such a distance from the seat ...

— Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete • Charles Sturt

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