Supporting

Synonyms Supportive, substantiating, supplementary, corroborating, confirmatory, probative, auxiliary, probatory, confirming, verifying, confirmational, corroborative, vindicating, corroboratory, beneficial, and helpful.

Synonyms Advocating, championing, adopting, helping, patronizing, reinforcing, standing up for, sticking up for, plumping (for), plonking (for), going to bat for, abetting, espousing, rescuing, advancing, siding (with), propping (up), plugging, talking up, endorsing, backing, embracing, assisting, aiding, going in for, holding a brief for, saving, bolstering, plunking (for), furthering, buttressing, preaching, forwarding, seconding, boosting, backstopping, delivering, and bailing out.

Synonyms Keeping, providing (for), sponsoring, taking care of, patronizing, footing the bill (for), maintaining, funding, financing, underwriting, staking, and setting up.

Synonyms Sustaining, bolstering, staying, buttressing, bearing, underlying, shoring (up), trussing, carrying, upholding, underpinning, bracing, undergirding, propping (up), and steadying.

Synonyms Reinforcing, proving, corroborating, buttressing, verifying, shoring (up), validating, bolstering, confirming, backing, establishing, substantiating, affirming, and avouching.

Synonyms Defending, maintaining, advocating, championing, proclaiming, confirming, insisting, vindicating, emphasizing, stating, claiming, debating, averring, underlining, stressing, avowing, justifying, upholding, affirming, asserting, discussing, sticking up for, standing up for, pleading, protesting, espousing, contending, arguing, professing, underscoring, warranting, and avouching.

Synonyms Assisting, helping, backing, abetting, saving, encouraging, guiding, sponsoring, fostering, championing, forwarding, sustaining, serving, benefiting, advancing, patronizing, advising, ministering (to), easing, profiting, favoring, delivering, obliging, emboldening, aiding, reinforcing, promoting, facilitating, endorsing, bolstering, backstopping, propping (up), furthering, bearing a hand, launching, attending, comforting, rescuing, standing one in good stead, buttressing, mentoring, nurturing, boosting, succoring, caring (for), counseling, bailing out, and heartening.

Synonyms Tolerating, standing, enduring, sustaining, absorbing, meeting, stomaching, sticking out, pocketing, hacking, biding, lumping (it), sweating out, brooking, toughing it out, reconciling (to), submitting (to), agreeing (with or to), assenting (to), accepting, handling, taking, bearing, wearing, swallowing, living with, abiding, standing for, countenancing, going, allowing, permitting, suffering, respecting, acquiescing, yielding (to), consenting (to), and capitulating.