Word Meanings - PROP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shell, used as a die. See Props.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROP)

• Bolster
• Support
• prop
• help
• sustain
• subsidize
• patch
• tinker
• buoy
• Support Bear
• uphold
• underlie
• befriend
• assist
• second
• promote
• further
• suffer
• defend
• foster
• nurture
• nourish
• cherish
• endorse
• maintain
• continue
• countenance
• patronize
• back
• stay
• favor

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROP)

• Oppose
• confront
• discourage
• discountenance
• browbeat
• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• oppose
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress

Related words: (words related to PROP)

• SECOND
  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. 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;
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• TINKER
  A small mortar on the end of a staff. A young mackerel about two years old. The chub mackerel. The silversides. A skate. (more info) his trade is to beat a kettle, or because in his work he makes a 1. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• CHERISHMENT
  Encouragement; comfort. Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser.
• ASSIST
  To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• PATRONIZER
  One who patronizes.
• SUSTAINABLE
  Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• TINKERSHIRE; TINKLE
  The common guillemot.
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• FAVORITE
  Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• OVERTHWARTLY
  In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.