maintain
v.t. १ (to keep up) बाळगणे, ठेवणे २ (to keep in repair or in good state) सुस्थितीत ठेवणे ३ राखणे (as in : to maintain law and order कायदा व सुव्यवस्था राखणे), पालन करणे ४ (to carry on or to conduct) चालवणे ५ (to furnish oneself, children, etc. with means of subsistence) चरितार्थ चालवणे ६ (to assert as true, as, opinion, statement–with that) ठाम मत असणे