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Synonyms for supporting

The synonym for supporting recorded in this bank is encouraging, in the sense "furnishing support and encouragement". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for supporting

encouragingadjective, in the sense "furnishing support and encouragement"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day supporting is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 2, Treeline

furnishing support and encouragement

The anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher.

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The true synonym

encouraging

Same sentence, swapped: The anxious child needs encouraging and accepting treatment from the teacher.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

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Where supporting turns up in the game

supporting is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play supporting

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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