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Sustained   /səstˈeɪnd/   Listen
Sustained

adjective
1.
Maintained at length without interruption or weakening.
2.
(of an electric arc) continuous.  Synonym: free burning.


Sustain

verb
(past & past part. sustained; pres. part. sustaining)
1.
Lengthen or extend in duration or space.  Synonyms: keep up, prolong.  "Prolong the treatment of the patient" , "Keep up the good work"
2.
Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses).  Synonyms: get, have, suffer.  "He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars" , "She got a bruise on her leg" , "He got his arm broken in the scuffle"
3.
Provide with nourishment.  Synonyms: nourish, nurture.  "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children"
4.
Supply with necessities and support.  Synonyms: keep, maintain.  "The money will sustain our good cause" , "There's little to earn and many to keep"
5.
Be the physical support of; carry the weight of.  Synonyms: hold, hold up, support.  "He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam" , "What's holding that mirror?"
6.
Admit as valid.
7.
Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts.  Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, support.  "The evidence supports the defendant"  Antonym: negate.



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"Sustained" Quotes from Famous Books



... sustained a couple of slight cuts, and therein you have another valid reason for his anxiety that the affair ...
— The Wheel O' Fortune • Louis Tracy
... the door to know if that is true which is said concerning it." So he opened the door and looked towards Cornwall and Aber Henvelen. And when they had looked, they were as conscious of all the evils they had ever sustained, and of all the friends and companions they had lost, and of all the misery that had befallen them, as if all had happened in that very spot; {59a} and especially of the fate of their lord. And because of ...
— The Mabinogion Vol. 3 (of 3) • Owen M. Edwards
... respect, More than he yet had done, pure Bible truth; And thus he learned to bear Christ's yoke in youth. His soul—so sensitive—was led, at last, Her every grief, her every fear to cast Upon her God, with simple faith—unfeigned; And found His promise true; she was sustained. ...
— The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales In Verse - Together With Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects • Thomas Cowherd
... boys," cried the self-sustained Miss Dimple; "if your hands are too soft, Prudy, you mustn't push. Wait and see what Dotty Dimple ...
— Dotty Dimple's Flyaway • Sophie May
... that I should determine how high the Water or other Liquor may by this means be raised in a smaller Pipe above the Superficies of that without it, and at what height it may be sustained: But to determine this, will be exceeding difficult, unless I could certainly know how much of the Airs pressure is taken off by the smalness of such and such a Pipe, and whether it may be wholly taken ...
— Micrographia • Robert Hooke


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