Maintain is valid Scrabble Word

Is maintain a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
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8 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for MAINTAIN in dictionary:

VERB:

to keep in proper condition
cause or enable (a condition or situation) to continue
keep (something) at the same level or rate
keep (a building, machine, or road) in good condition by checking or repairing it regularly
provide with necessities for life or existence
keep (a military unit) supplied with equipment and other requirements
state something strongly to be the case; assert
continue or keep in existence
To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.
To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish.

To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.
To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed.
To affirm; to support or defend by argument.
keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g.,
keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
supply with necessities and support
state categorically
have and exercise
maintain for use and service
maintain by writing regular records
state or assert
support against an opponent
stick to correctly or closely
give one's support to; uphold

Words related to MAINTAIN

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Words that contain MAINTAIN

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How to use MAINTAIN in a sentence

Abbott, the very best friends of the Effinghams will not maintain that they are pious.
No Englishman believes that his nation can rule or keep India for a day unless the people of India actively co-operate to maintain that rule.
The great interests which the United States have in the Pacific, in commerce and in the fisheries, have also made it necessary to maintain a naval force there.
Here the Methodists have built a mission-house, maintain a missionary, and instruct a fragment of the Chippewa tribe.
Whereas my former masters declined to feed me, this one expected that I should maintain him.
And yet her influence did more to maintain peace and good feeling in the family group, than would have been believed by a person who had not observed her.
To achieve that, he must maintain legal and political monopolies, and prevent the invasion of political life by living interests.
I maintain, on the other hand, that there are a number of live fish still swimming in it, and that every one of us has a right to see if he cannot catch some of them.
The American navy is at the present moment stronger than the German, and will henceforth maintain this precedence.
The Government will soon have to decide the question whether to maintain them or to give them up to South Carolina.

What was the consequence? To maintain the whole system of the government, including the collection of the revenue, devolved upon that army.
Though weaker in body, I believed I found myself, through divine strength, as firm in my resolution to maintain my allegiance to my Master.
Indeed, she let him hold that gaze until it was not possible for her longer to maintain her share of the exchange without twisting about in the car.
Now the census figures tell us that if present conditions maintain in the future only about 100 of the 4,000 boys leaving school each year will be carpenters.
Those, on the other hand, who consider Release to be something to be effected properly maintain that it depends on the action of mind, speech, or body.
In the higher forms of animal life, each animal has its offspring as well as itself to maintain.
To maintain unity was considered a higher duty than to uphold truth, and to be subject to the bishop was deemed one of the greatest of evangelical virtues.
Two valuable months were lost, and then the Marquis of Blair sent for me! I maintain that the case was hopeless from the moment I took it up.
We maintain that the mere union of a superior understanding and the necessary feelings are not sufficient to make up resolution.
We have the principles of the fathers of the Mecklenburg Declaration to maintain.
The stuff they were induced to buy has not, and could not, maintain its price, and the shops are now full of the volumes which, seven or ten years ago, fetched fancy sums.
From these data some calculation may be made of the number of people that the island might be made to maintain.
III FRANK JERVAISE I should have preferred to maintain a thoughtful, experiencing silence throughout our walk home.
Jan, if he would maintain his respectability as a medical man and a gentleman, if he would retain his higher class of patients, he must give up his association with Dr.
It is clear, then, that since 990 men, urged by want, will crowd upon the supports which would only maintain a hundred, the ten capitalists will be masters of the market.
May success attend them in their efforts to maintain themselves.
Walking was good, and it had done much to maintain his strength and steady his nerves, but one could not walk all the way across Germany.

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