CHAMPIONED Synonyms

• preferred above all others and treated with partiality

• sustained or maintained by aid (as distinct from physical support)

• held up or having the weight borne especially from below

• a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea

• a lawyer who pleads cases in court

• push for something

• speak, plead, or argue in favor of

• argue or speak in defense of

• be on the defensive; act against an attack

• protect against a challenge or attack

• fight against or resist strongly

• protect or fight for as a champion

• be the defense counsel for someone in a trial

• state or assert

• be behind; approve of

• give support or one's approval to

• guarantee as meeting a certain standard

• sign as evidence of legal transfer

• choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans

• take in marriage; married

• take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own

• contribute to the progress or growth of

• give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

• make publicity for; try to sell (a product)

• be changed for a superior chess or checker piece

• change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent

• push for something

• express a good opinion of

• make attractive or acceptable

• keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last

• stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals

• support against an opponent

• the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number

• proteolytic enzyme that converts angiotensin I into angiotensin II

• one of four playing cards in a deck having a single pip on its face

• a major strategic headquarters of NATO; safeguards an area extending from Norway to Turkey

• someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

• a serve that the receiver is unable to reach

• of the highest quality

• succeed at easily

• score an ace against

• play (a hole) in one stroke

• serve an ace against (someone)

• someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

• having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

• a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

• a person who admires; someone who esteems or respects or approves

• someone who admires a young woman

• a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

• someone who is an active supporter and advocate

• a thief who steals goods that are in a store

• an amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal

• the first stage of a multistage rocket

• an additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective

• someone who has won first place in a competition

• chafe at the bit, like horses

• chew noisily or vigorously

• argue or speak in defense of

• be on the defensive; act against an attack

• protect against a challenge or attack

• fight against or resist strongly

• protect or fight for as a champion

• be the defense counsel for someone in a trial

• state or assert

• someone who fights (or is fighting)

• a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air

• someone who fights for a cause

• a person you know well and regard with affection and trust

• a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)

• an associate who provides cooperation or assistance

• a person with whom you are acquainted

• a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

• someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality

• unusual mental ability

• someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

• exceptional creative ability

• a natural talent

• a person distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength

• Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)

• the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem

• (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her

• someone who fights for a cause

• (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god

• a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States