supporting

• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˈpɔɹtɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səˈpɔːtɪŋ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /səˈpo(ː)ɹtɪŋ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /səˈpoətɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tɪŋ
• Hyphenation: sup‧port‧ing

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supporting (comparative more supporting, superlative most supporting)

1. That supports.

supporting

1. present participle and gerund of support

supporting (plural supportings)

1. That which supports something else; a support.
   • 1847, Walter Henry Medhurst, A Dissertation on the Theology of the Chinese, page 252:

     But supposing that heaven had a Lord, then all included in its overspreadings and supportings, throughout the myriad of states, and within the four seas, would invariably be under the government of Heaven's Lord […]

   • 1913, Proceedings of the Lake Superior Mining Institute:

     […] the pumps could he installed at once on the completion of the pump-house supportings.