(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ someone or their ideas or aims, you agree with them, and perhaps help them because you want them to succeed.
The vice president insisted that he ~ed the hard-working people of New York...
The National Union of Mineworkers pressed the party to ~ a total ban on imported coal.
= back
? oppose
VERB: V n, V n
•
Support is also a noun.
The prime minister gave his full ~ to the government’s reforms...
N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp
2.
If you give ~ to someone during a difficult or unhappy time, you are kind to them and help them.
It was hard to come to terms with her death after all the ~ she gave to me and the family...
N-UNCOUNT
3.
Financial ~ is money provided to enable an organization to continue. This money is usually provided by the government.
...the government’s proposal to cut agricultural ~ by only about 15%.
= funding
N-UNCOUNT: oft supp N
4.
If you ~ someone, you provide them with money or the things that they need.
I have children to ~, money to be earned, and a home to be maintained...
She sold everything she’d ever bought in order to ~ herself through art school.
VERB: V n, V pron-refl
5.
If a fact ~s a statement or a theory, it helps to show that it is true or correct.
The Freudian theory about daughters falling in love with their father has little evidence to ~ it.
= substantiate
VERB: V n
•
Support is also a noun.
The two largest powers in any system must always be major rivals. History offers some ~ for this view.
= evidence
N-UNCOUNT
6.
If something ~s an object, it is underneath the object and holding it up.
...the thick wooden posts that ~ed the ceiling...
= hold up
VERB: V n
7.
A ~ is a bar or other object that ~s something.
N-COUNT
8.
If you ~ yourself, you prevent yourself from falling by holding onto something or by leaning on something.
He ~ed himself by means of a nearby post.
VERB: V pron-refl
•
Support is also a noun.
Alice, very pale, was leaning against him as if for ~.
N-UNCOUNT
9.
If you ~ a sports team, you always want them to win and perhaps go regularly to their games.
Tim, 17, ~s Manchester United.
VERB: V n
10.
see also ~ing