Sekirov Dictionary

sustain

/səˈsteɪn/

verb 9
noun 2
forms 5

verb9

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To maintain, or keep in existence.
- The professor had trouble sustaining students’ interest until the end of her lectures.
- The city came under sustained attack by enemy forces.
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To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
- The building sustained major damage in the earthquake.
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To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.
- After the vote is taken, the Chairman states that the decision of the Chair is sustained, or reversed, as the case may be. — 1876
To allow, accept, or admit (e.g. an objection or motion) as valid.
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To provide for or nourish.
- Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. — 1611
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To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
- A foundation sustains the superstructure; an animal sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.
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To be a long-lasting sound.
- I like how long that drum sustains.
To encourage or sanction (something).
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To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
- His Sons, who seek the Tyrant to sustain, And long for Arbitrary Lords again, — 1697

noun2

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A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
- To call this music bland is to ignore the down-the-drain vocal fade-aways, the extended sax sustains […] — 2011
Clipping of sustainability.

forms

sustained · sustaining · sustaineth · sustains · sustainest

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