Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to maintain
Participle: maintained
Gerund: maintaining
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | maintain |
| you | maintain |
| he;she;it | maintains |
| we | maintain |
| you | maintain |
| they | maintain |
Perfect
| I | have maintained |
| you | have maintained |
| he;she;it | has maintained |
| we | have maintained |
| you | have maintained |
| they | have maintained |
Past
| I | maintained |
| you | maintained |
| he;she;it | maintained |
| we | maintained |
| you | maintained |
| they | maintained |
Pluperfect
| I | had maintained |
| you | had maintained |
| he;she;it | had maintained |
| we | had maintained |
| you | had maintained |
| they | had maintained |
Future
| I | will maintain |
| you | will maintain |
| he;she;it | will maintain |
| we | will maintain |
| you | will maintain |
| they | will maintain |
Future Perfect
| I | will have maintained |
| you | will have maintained |
| he;she;it | will have maintained |
| we | will have maintained |
| you | will have maintained |
| they | will have maintained |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | maintain |
| you | maintain |
| he;she;it | maintain |
| we | maintain |
| you | maintain |
| they | maintain |
Perfect
| I | have maintained |
| you | have maintained |
| he;she;it | have maintained |
| we | have maintained |
| you | have maintained |
| they | have maintained |
Imperfect
| I | maintained |
| you | maintained |
| he;she;it | maintained |
| we | maintained |
| you | maintained |
| they | maintained |
Pluperfect
| I | had maintained |
| you | had maintained |
| he;she;it | had maintained |
| we | had maintained |
| you | had maintained |
| they | had maintained |
Conditional
Present
| I | would maintain |
| you | would maintain |
| he;she;it | would maintain |
| we | would maintain |
| you | would maintain |
| they | would maintain |
Perfect
| I | would have maintained |
| you | would have maintained |
| he;she;it | would have maintained |
| we | would have maintained |
| you | would have maintained |
| they | would have maintained |
Imperative
| you | maintain |
| we | Let's maintain |
| you | maintain |
Verbs conjugated like 'maintain'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'maintain'
abstain,
attain,
captain,
contain,
distain,
fainten,
fountain,
intail,
mainline,
mistrain,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- persevere
- sustain, save, retain, uphold, preserve, provide, continue
- affirm
- declare, state, assert, contend, claim, hold, allege, warrant
Antonyms
- to finish (something)
- begin, commence, continue, execute, inaugurate, launch, proceed, restart, start, end
- to withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed
- affirm, aver, double down, stand firm, stand one's ground, recant, uphold
- to remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material
- insert, delete
- affirm
- contradict, deny, dispute, oppose
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1250, "to practice habitually," from Anglo-Fr.
meintenir (O.Fr.
maintenir), from L.
manu tenere "hold in the hand," from
manu, abl. of
manus "hand" (see manual) +
tenere "to hold" (see tenet). Meaning "to carry on, keep up" is from c.1350; that of "to keep oneself, to support" is from 1375. Sense of "to defend in speech" is from 1340.
2. From Middle English mayntenen, from Old French maintenir, from Late Latin manūteneō, manūtenēre (“I support”), from Latin manū (“with/in/by the hand”, ablative of manus) + tenēre (“to hold”). See: Old French '
maintenir'.
Verbs referencing "maintain"
Ido mantenar, Cebuano mintin.
Sample Sentences
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One other establishment closes the catalogue. It is the House of Correction for the State, in which silence is strictly maintained, but where the prisoners have the comfort and mental relief of seeing each other, and of working together. This is the improved system of Prison Discipline which we have imported into England, and [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] to the wind. At length it occurred to me that they were only spitting, which was indeed the case; though how any number of passengers which it was possible for that car to contain, could have maintained such a playful and incessant shower of expectoration, I am still at a loss to understand: notwithstanding the experience in all salivatory phenomena which I afterwards acquired.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] old gentleman, ambled up and down the room, appearing, as John Bunyan hath it, “ much tumbled up and down in his mind, ” and divided between his wish to help George, and a certain confused notion of maintaining law and order: so, as he shambled about, he delivered himself as follows:
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] broad unblushing noon, through the first city in the East. Public opinion has, within a few years, burned a slave alive at a slow fire in the city of St. Louis; and public opinion has to this day maintained upon the bench that estimable judge who charged the jury, impanelled there to try his murderers, that their most horrid deed was an act of public opinion, and being so, must not be punished by the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ If it's particularly agreeable to you to have heart disease, why, I'll try and maintain you have it, ” said St. Clare; “ I didn't know it was. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)