how to pronounce uphold

/əpˈhoʊld/

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uphold is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of uphold in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… the supreme court did uphold in the end …”

meaning of uphold

To uphold means to support or defend.

uphold frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word uphold occurs in english on average 4.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics uphold can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that uphold can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;