Usually means: Maintain, support, or defend something.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word uphold:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. uphold: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. uphold: Merriam-Webster
  3. uphold: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. uphold: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. uphold: Collins English Dictionary
  6. uphold: Vocabulary.com
  7. Uphold, uphold: Wordnik
  8. uphold: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Uphold, uphold: Wiktionary
  10. uphold: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. uphold: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. uphold: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. uphold: Dictionary.com
  14. uphold: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. uphold: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Uphold: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. uphold: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. uphold: Rhymezone
  19. uphold: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. uphold: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. uphold: FreeDictionary.org
  22. uphold: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. uphold: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. uphold: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. uphold: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uphold: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uphold: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
verb:  To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling
verb:  To support by approval or encouragement; to vindicate; to confirm (something which has been questioned)
noun:  A surname.

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