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- Dictionarymaintain/meɪnˈteɪn/
verb
- 1. cause or enable (a condition or situation) to continue: "the need to maintain close links between industry and schools" Similar Opposite
- 2. provide with necessities for life or existence: "the allowance covers the basic costs of maintaining a child" Similar Opposite
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MAINTAIN definition: 1. to continue to have; to keep in existence, or not allow to become less: 2. to keep a road…. Learn more.
The meaning of MAINTAIN is to keep in an existing state (as of repair, efficiency, or validity) : preserve from failure or decline. How to use maintain in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Maintain.
MAINTAIN meaning: 1. to continue to have; to keep in existence, or not allow to become less: 2. to keep a road…. Learn more.
Maintain definition: to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain. See examples of MAINTAIN used in a sentence.
If you maintain something, you continue to have it, and do not let it stop or grow weaker.
1. to continue or retain; keep in existence. 2. to keep in proper or good condition: to maintain a building. 3. to support a style of living: the money maintained us for a month. 4. (takes a clause as object) to state or assert: he maintained that Talbot was wrong. 5. to defend against contradiction; uphold: she maintained her innocence.
verb. stick to correctly or closely. synonyms: keep, observe. verb. state or assert. “He maintained his innocence” synonyms: defend.