scaffold - provide with a scaffold for support; "scaffold the building before painting it"

block - support, secure, or raise with a block; "block a plate for printing"; "block the wheels of a car"

carry - bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of; "His efforts carried the entire project"; "How many credits is this student carrying?"; "We carry a very large mortgage"

chock - support on chocks; "chock the boat"

buoy, buoy up - keep afloat; "The life vest buoyed him up"

pole - support on poles; "pole climbing plants like beans"

bracket - support with brackets; "bracket bookshelves"

underpin - support from beneath

prop, prop up, shore up, shore - support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building"

truss - support structurally; "truss the roofs"; "trussed bridges"

brace - support by bracing

display, exhibit, expose - to show, make visible or apparent; "The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month"; "Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?"; "National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship"

decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard - lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"

stonewall - engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate; "The President stonewalled when he realized the plot was being uncovered by a journalist"

catch - delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned; "I was caught in traffic and missed the meeting"

stall - deliberately delay an event or action; "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling"

buy time - act so as to delay an event or action in order to gain an advantage

crime, law-breaking - (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; "a long record of crimes"

mug - rob at gunpoint or with the threat of violence; "I was mugged in the streets of New York last night"

rob - take something away by force or without the consent of the owner; "The burglars robbed him of all his money"

live, be - have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"

subsist, exist, survive, live - support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"

hold water, stand up, hold up - resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.; "Her shoes won't hold up"; "This theory won't hold water"

perennate - survive from season to season, of plants

live out - live out one's life; live to the end

stand firm, withstand, hold out, resist - stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something

brave, brave out, weather, endure - face or endure with courage; "She braved the elements"

live on, survive, last, live, endure, hold out, hold up, go - continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents"