uphold

Other forms of uphold

past tense or participle

upheld

present participle

upholding·

third person

upholds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about uphold

What does uphold mean?

uphold means "keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in uphold?

uphold has 2 syllables: u-phold. The stress falls on "phold". In IPA it is /əpˈhoʊld/.

What is another word for uphold?

Close synonyms include continue, carry on, bear on, preserve, maintain. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is uphold a common word?

uphold is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with uphold?

13 words rhyme with uphold. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.