To encourage or sanction (something).
To provide for or nourish.
To maintain, or keep in existence.
To allow, accept, or admit (e.g. an objection or motion) as valid.
To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.
To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
To be or act different from the usual.
To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate.
To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key, measure, etc. See variation.
Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter.
To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify.
To change with time or a similar parameter.
To display differences.