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UK
/səpˈɔːtɪd/
]
[ US /səˈpɔɹtɪd/ ]
[ US /səˈpɔɹtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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held up or having the weight borne especially from below
supported joints in a railroad track have ties directly under the rail ends -
sustained or maintained by aid (as distinct from physical support)
a club entirely supported by membership dues
well-supported allegations
How To Use supported In A Sentence
- The Danish Dairy Board and the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Fisheries supported this study.
- Hotspur is an uncommon man, whose uncommonness is unsupported by his father at a critical moment. William Shakespeare
- They acted as an anchorage for the stanchions which, standing on the seabed, supported the harbours.
- Mrs King is being supported by her husband Simon, a police inspector with Wiltshire Constabulary, who is also a seasoned runner.
- The latest strategy is now seen dropping unsupported accusations across the media spectrum to the effect that the intelligence agency's assignment of Ambassador Joseph Wilson to look into the now-discredited Iraq/Niger/uranium claims were all part of a long-term insidious scheme to try and discredit the Bush Administration. Brad Friedman: Wingnuts Declare Coordinated All-Out Cross-Media War on CIA as Newest Front in TreasonGate!
- The Dutch United Provinces supported the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
- A more material reason for the recent spread of campus farms is probably the rise of community-supported agriculture.
- The skin is fibreglass over a thin layer of plywood, which is itself supported by a skeleton of thicker ply, stiffened by a steel structure.
- As the passage continues there is a section of rotten flooring supported on dubious stemples just above head height.
- Perret considers this dispatch an anomaly: "It stands alone, unsupported, unrepeated."