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.