bear up (v.)

• accost
• advance
• approach
• approximate
• assure
• back
• bear
• bolster
• brace
• buoy
• buttress
• carry
• cheer
• close
• come
• comfort
• confront
• console
• cradle
• cushion
• defy
• ease
• encounter
• encourage
• endure
• finance
• float
• fund
• hearten
• hold
• keep
• maintain
• near
• pillow
• prop
• proximate
• reassure
• rebuff
• reinforce
• relieve
• repel
• repulse
• resist
• shore
• shoulder
• solace
• stand
• stay
• stick
• subsidize
• subvention
• support
• sustain
• undergird
• underlie
• underpin
• uphold
• uplift
• upraise
• waft
• withstand