Meet and Support

Meet

Meet verb - To put up with (something painful or difficult).

Usage example: trying to meet the challenge of going to college while working at a full-time job

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Support and meet are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Support" instead a verb "Meet".

Nearby Word: meeting

Support verb - To put up with (something painful or difficult).

Usage example: he simply cannot support the thought of having to go on living without his beloved wife at his side

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Meet and support are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Meet" instead a verb "Support".

close	close meet	close support
special	special meet	special support
proper	proper meet	proper support
real	real meet	real support
Other adjectives: main, personal, possible, less, official, international, technical.

love	meet love	support love
friend	meet friend	support friend
people	meet people	support people
wife	meet wife	support wife
Other words: children, family, child, brother, son, daughter, sister, friends, members.

Although his father died the year before, his class graduated without him, and he had to work construction jobs to make ends meet and support his mother on scholarship, he won the Heisman in 1970.

Source: Determinator / Real Life
When we meet Spencer, he's a terrified, feeble old man who is on life support 24 hours a day.

Source: The Man Behind the Curtain
The first anime of Fullmetal Alchemist has an example where Ed and Al meet a thief who claims to rob so she can support the local hospital.

Source: Justified Criminal

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