Maintain and Run

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Maintain verb - To keep in good condition.

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Run is a synonym for maintain. In some cases you can use "Run" instead a verb "Maintain".

Run verb - To go at a pace faster than a walk.

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Maintain is a synonym for run in drive topic. Sometimes you can use "Maintain" instead a verb "Run".

Nearby Word: running

life	maintain life	run life
control	maintain control	run control
place	maintain place	run place
system	maintain system	run system
Other words: army, world, distance, empire.

Who, due to a bit of cleverness by her initial programmers, is specifically set up to not care about the fate of humanity, only to run and maintain the Net.

Source: Literature / Council Wars
Even if it hadn't met ruin-by-unforeseen-dragons trimming its available living space a fair bit, it'd still have been an impossible castle to supply, maintain and run properly thanks to the sheer scale of the damned thing, and due to the army of servants and/or serfs needed to keep it going.

Source: Awesome But Impractical / Literature
The entire nine-year run of The X-Files depends on the creators' abilities to maintain this trope.

Source: Plausible Deniability

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Run and Maintain. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/maintain/run

Maintain & Run. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/maintain/run>.

Run or Maintain. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/maintain/run.

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