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"sense": "antonym(s) of “to keep up”",
"word": "abandon"
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"ref": "c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:",
"text": "Ther[idamas]. Won with thy words, & conquered with thy lookes,\nI yeeld my ſelfe, my men & horſe to thee:\nTo be partaker of thy good or ill,\nAs long as life maintaines Theridimas.",
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"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2-3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:",
"text": "Mancini's men were far from their best but dug in to earn a 10th win in 11 league games and an eighth successive victory in all competitions to maintain their five-point lead at the top of the table.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2013 March 14, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 98:",
"text": "Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.",
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥāfaẓa",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "حَافَظَ"
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"roman": "poddǎržam",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "поддържам"
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"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "mantenir"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "維持"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "wéichí",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "维持"
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "udržovat"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "vedligeholde"
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "handhaven"
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "bonteni"
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"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "ylläpitää"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "hoitaa"
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"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "säilyttää"
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"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "pitää"
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"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "entretenir"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "šenarčuneba",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "შენარჩუნება"
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"_dis1": "87 2 7 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "unterhalten"
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"_dis1": "87 2 7 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "warten"
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"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "beibehalten"
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"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "aufrechterhalten"
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"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "diatiró",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "διατηρώ"
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"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "diatēréō",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "διατηρέω"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "karbantart"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "fenntart"
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"_dis1": "87 2 7 4",
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "tart"
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"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "mantenar"
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"_dis1": "87 2 7 4",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "coinnigh"
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"_dis1": "87 2 7 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "mantenere"
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"_dis1": "87 2 7 4",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tamotsu",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "保つ"
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"_dis1": "87 2 7 4",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "iji suru",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "維持する"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "yuji-hada",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "유지하다"
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "habeo"
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "tueor"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "tuarā"
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"_dis1": "87 2 7 4",
"code": "zdj",
"lang": "Ngazidja Comorian",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "uɗumisha"
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"_dis1": "87 2 7 4",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "opprettholde"
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"_dis1": "87 2 7 4",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "bevare"
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"_dis1": "87 2 7 4",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "vedlikeholde"
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"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "manténer"
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"sense": "to keep up",
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"word": "utrzymać"
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"sense": "to keep up",
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"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "manter"
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"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "menține"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "poddérživatʹ",
"sense": "to keep up",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "подде́рживать"
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"_dis1": "87 2 7 4",
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "podderžátʹ",
"sense": "to keep up",
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"word": "поддержа́ть"
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"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "dharati",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "धरति"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "mantener"
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"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "dumisha"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "upphålla"
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"_dis1": "87 2 7 4",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "bibehålla"
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"_dis1": "87 2 7 4",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pidtrýmuvaty",
"sense": "to keep up",
"word": "підтри́мувати"
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"ref": "1962 December, “A new Pullman era?”, in Modern Railways, page 362:",
"text": "Pullman traditionalists will no doubt maintain that the full-service-at-every-seat principle is popular with their clientele; [...].",
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"ref": "2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:",
"text": "She maintains that the internet should face similar curbs to TV because young people are increasingly living online. \"It's totally different, someone at Google watching the video from the comfort of their office in San Francisco to someone from a council house in London, where this video is happening right outside their front door.\"",
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"roman": "otstojavam",
"sense": "to declare or affirm a point of view to be true",
"word": "отстоявам"
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"word": "mantenir"
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"sense": "to declare or affirm a point of view to be true",
"word": "väittää"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to declare or affirm a point of view to be true",
"word": "esittää"
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"sense": "to declare or affirm a point of view to be true",
"word": "maintenir"
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"code": "el",
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"roman": "ischyrízomai",
"sense": "to declare or affirm a point of view to be true",
"word": "ισχυρίζομαι"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to declare or affirm a point of view to be true",
"word": "whakanonoi"
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"word": "afirmar"
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"sense": "to declare or affirm a point of view to be true",
"word": "afirma"
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"sense": "to declare or affirm a point of view to be true",
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"ref": "1946 July and August, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 213:",
"text": "The admirable smoothness of the riding also reflected the greatest credit on those who, despite the difficulties caused by the shortage of men and materials, have succeeded in maintaining the track in such first-class order.",
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"english": "\"And then he asked leave, and went out of his hermitage for to maintain his nephew against the mighty earl; and so it happed that this man that lieth here dead did so much by his wisdom and hardiness that the earl was taken, and three of his lords, by force of this dead man.\"",
"ref": "1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “j”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XV (in Middle English):",
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