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v. To keep in existence; maintain.

v. To supply with necessities or nourishment; provide for.

v. To support from below; keep from falling or sinking; prop.

v. To support the spirits, vitality, or resolution of; encourage.

v. To bear up under; withstand: can't sustain the blistering heat.

v. To experience or suffer: sustained a fatal injury.

v. To affirm the validity of: The judge has sustained the prosecutor's objection.

v. To prove or corroborate; confirm.

v. To keep up (a joke or assumed role, for example) competently.

n. A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.

v. To maintain (something), or keep it in existence.

v. To provide for or nourish (something).

v. To encourage (something).

v. To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).

v. To confirm, prove, or corroborate (something).

v. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.

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

v. To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish.

v. To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.

v. To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under.

v. To suffer; to bear; to undergo.

v. To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate.

v. To prove; to establish by evidence; to corroborate or confirm; to be conclusive of.

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

To hold up; bear up; uphold; support.

To hold suspended; keep from falling or sinking: as, a rope sustains a weight; to sustain one in the water.

To keep from sinking in despondency; support.

To maintain; keep up; especially, to keep alive; support; subsist; nourish: as, provisions to sustain a family or an army; food insufficient to sustain life.

To support in any condition by aid; vindicate, comfort, assist, or relieve; favor.

To endure without failing or yielding; bear up against; stand: as, able to sustain a shock.

To suffer; have to submit to; bear; undergo.

To admit or support as correct or valid; hold as well founded: as, the court sustained the action or suit.

To support or maintain; establish by evidence; bear out; prove; confirm; make good; corroborate: as, such facts sustain the statement; the evidence is not sufficient to sustain the charge.

In music, of tones, to prolong or hold to full time-value; render in a legato or sostenuto manner.

See living.

8 and To sanction, approve, ratify, justify.

To sustain one's self; rest for support.

To bear; endure; suffer.

n. One who or that which upholds; a sustainer.

v. establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

v. admit as valid

v. undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)

v. be the physical support of; carry the weight of

v. lengthen or extend in duration or space

v. provide with nourishment

v. supply with necessities and support

"Because the Bush Administration vowed to keep ‘the war’ going, as in sustain combat activities indefinitely, absent any ultimate victory."

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