noun
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A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
verb
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To maintain, or keep in existence.
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The city came under sustained attack by enemy forces.
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To provide for or nourish.
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provisions to sustain an army
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To encourage or sanction (something).
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To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
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The building sustained major damage in the earthquake.
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To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.
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to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition
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To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
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A foundation sustains the superstructure; an animal sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.
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To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
Examples of sustain in a Sentence
She sighed, no longer able to sustain her hope.
We don't have the people or supplies to sustain ourselves on the regular army side.
These passages inspire a hope, but do not sustain a certainty.
But his character was too weak to sustain the part.
But then, not being married, how could he understand what was required to sustain a marriage?
She was trained to assess, protect, repair, and sustain government systems through any kind of crisis.
Pretorius and Kruger, realizing that they would have to sustain attack from both north and south, abandoned their enterprise.
In the past, humanity has been able to sustain both wars and progress.
They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them.
It was to sustain Augustine's thesis that Orosius produced in 417 his Historiarum libri septem, which remained the standard text-book on world history during the middle ages.
It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods, and still sustain themselves in the neighborhood of towns, suspected by hunters only.
It would involve human beings in helping to sustain the earth's biosphere.
The western mountains, exposed to the fierce lash of the Atlantic rains, sustain the heaviest and most constant precipitation.
After that, revolts of the satraps in Asia Minor and Syria were of everyday occurrence, and the task of suppressing them wasP complicated by the foreign wars which the empire had to sustain against Greece and Egypt.
Sir Walter Scott, Croker, Hayward, Macaulay, Thomas Carlyle (whose famous Fraser article was reprinted in 1853) and Whitwell Elwin have done as much as anybody perhaps to sustain the zest for Johnsonian studies.
Isliamov hoisted the Russian flag on Franz Josef Land in anticipation of any claim that Austria might sustain by right of discovery.
It had to sustain many wars with its neighbours in order to maintain itself in its new possessions.
The legend of the Omophorus and Splenditeneus, rival giants who sustain earth and luminous heavens on their respective shoulders, even if it already figures in the cuneiform texts of Assyria, is yet to be traced in Mithraic bas-reliefs.
If they spring from a thick root it is not to be wantonly severed, but the soil should be removed and the sucker taken off by cutting away a clean slice of the root, which will then heal and sustain no harm.
Bloom however, did not sustain any injuries in the accident.
As if Nature could support but one order of understandings, could not sustain birds as well as quadrupeds, flying as well as creeping things, and hush and whoa, which Bright can understand, were the best English.
However, after the fad ended, the company could not sustain the brand and filed for bankruptcy in 1988.
Your body has certain caloric requirements to sustain healthy function.
If you sustain medical bills as a result of a car accident, you will need personal injury protection for coverage.
In 1314 Albert's son, Frederick, was chosen German king in opposition to Louis IV., duke of Upper Bavaria, afterwards the emperor Louis IV., and Austria was weakened by the efforts of the Habsburgs to sustain Frederick in his contest with Louis, and also by the struggle carried on between another brother, Leopold, and the Swiss.
As, however, the animals referred to do not actually fly, but merely dart into the air and there sustain themselves for brief intervals, they afford no real support to the theory.
Maria Fay's floor barre work established good habits and strengthened the essential stabilizing reflexes needed to sustain balance and control.
He couldn't sustain the lead, failing to make a single birdie on the back nine.
For a time I went about trying to trip myself up but did not manage to sustain even a bruise.
As fatigue sets in, the muscle tissue is no longer capable of meeting the metabolic requirements needed to sustain the contraction.
Hence we are seeking to establish a critical mass of people enough to initiate and sustain a thriving local land based economy.
In this case the free-wheel diodes sustain the load current during the dead time.
I feel confident about the leisure sector â high disposable incomes will surely sustain activity here.
In physics, to sustain oneself is to keep far away from thermodynamic equilibrium, which is death by another name.
These data may indicate a greater reliance on the NO pathway to sustain levels of cardiac vagal activity in heart failure.
It will protect you against most of the damages-both man-made and natural-your house may sustain.
An outdoor Tom is more likely to become involved in fights and sustain infection from an injury.
A PV off grid system built to sustain many users is called a mini-grid system.
I am miserable in your absence yet the simple memory of you is enough to sustain me during those interminably long intervals when we are apart.
Perhaps his energy would not have been sufficient to sustain him against these repeated blows of destiny if, in 1854, the accession to the viceroyalty of Egypt of his old friend, Said Pacha, had not given a new impulse to the ideas that had haunted him for the last twenty-two years concerning the Suez Canal.
The labour needed in this industry is supplied by Indian peons, who live in a state of semi-servitude and are paid barely enough to sustain life.
Chase and Judge John C. Underwood constituted the United States circuit court sitting for Virginia before which the case was brought in December 1868; the court was divided, the chief justice voting to sustain the motion and Underwood to overrule it.
He negotiates all treaties or alliances with foreign states, protects British subjects residing abroad, and demands satisfaction for any injuries they may sustain at the hands of foreigners.
It was certainly wise if the means existed which were necessary to carry it out and sustain it.
The rainfall, however, is light, about 20 to 25 in., but, with the assistance of irrigation, it serves to sustain a considerable degree of cultivation in the neighbourhood of the city.
That it can sustain life on a purely vegetable diet is proved by instances on record of its being fed for years on bread only, in confinement.
In confinement the brown bear is readily tamed; and advantage has been taken of the facility with which it can sustain itself on the hind feet to teach it to dance to the sound of music. It measures about 12 ft.
We have now to see that, in writing the Categories, on the one hand he carried his differences from his master further than he had done in his early criticisms by insisting that individual substances are not only real, but are the very things which sustain the universal; but on the other hand, he clung to further relics of the Platonic theory, and it is those which differentiate the Categories and the Metaphysics.
He was extremely popular at court, and in 1783, on the death of Archbishop Cornwallis, the king pressed him to accept the primacy, but Hurd, who was known, says Madame d'Arblay, as "The Beauty of Holiness," declined it as a charge not suited to his temper and talents, and much too heavy for him to sustain.
Farther south the llanos of Chuquisaca and Tarija also sustain large herds of cattle on the more elevated districts, and on the well-watered plains of the Chaco.