Maintain and Pursue

Maintain

Maintain verb - To keep in good condition.

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Pursue and maintain are semantically related in hold topic. In some cases you can use "Pursue" instead a verb "Maintain", when it comes to topics like proceed.

Nearby Words: maintained, maintaining, maintainable, maintainability

Pursue

Pursue verb - To go after or on the track of.

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Antonyms for Pursue

Maintain and pursue are semantically related in hold topic. Sometimes you can use "Maintain" instead a verb "Pursue", if it concerns topics such as proceed, continue, persist.

Nearby Words: pursuit, pursuance, pursuing, pursuer

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Common collocations

friendship	maintain friendship	pursue friendship
power	maintain power	pursue power
life	maintain life	pursue life
relationship	maintain relationship	pursue relationship
Other words: degree, relationships.

Both words in one sentence

Kamal Abdic, insisting on trying to pursue a relationship with him despite him trying to maintain a professional distance.

Source: Literature / The Girl on the Train
Recordings made by Aperture's founder Cave Johnson imply that GLaDOS was supposed to maintain the facility after Johnson's death and pursue portal gun testing with an almost single-minded intensity.

Source: Ridiculously Human Robots / Video Games
To his (sort of) credit, whenever possible Arthur writes loopholes in the law purely so he can exploit them and maintain a legal means to pursue his hobbies.

Source: Straw Hypocrite

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