Definition of Sustain

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Sustain

To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.

Hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like; to support.

To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army.

To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.

To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment.

To suffer; to bear; to undergo.

To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit.

To prove; to establish by evidence; to corroborate or confirm; to be conclusive of; as, to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition.

One who, or that which, upholds or sustains; a sustainer.

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Sustain Quotations

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.
Barack Obama

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
Alice Walker

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig

I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.
Mercedes McCambridge

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
Jack Nicklaus

I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.
Ritchie Blackmore

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
Fidel Castro

Sustain Translations

sustain in Afrikaans is ondersteun
sustain in Dutch is stutten, steunen, schragen
sustain in Finnish is nojata
sustain in French is appuyer
sustain in Italian is poggiare, appogiare, sostenere
sustain in Latin is sustineo, tolero, alo (alui altum), sustento
sustain in Portuguese is sustente

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