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Vindicate :: Vindicate (v. t.) To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain against assault; as, to vindicate a right, claim, or title..

Bear :: Bear (v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc..

Succiduous :: Successor (n.) One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king..

Underfong :: Underfong (v. t.) To sustain; to support; to guard.

Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain..

Revetment :: Revetment (v. t.) A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall..

Lesion :: Lesion (n.) Loss sustained from failure to fulfill a bargain or contract.

Undergo :: Undergo (v. t.) To be subjected to; to bear up against; to pass through; to endure; to suffer; to sustain; as, to undergo toil and fatigue; to undergo pain, grief, or anxiety; to undergothe operation of amputation; food in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion..

Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.

Dependent :: Dependent (n.) One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for support of favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents..

Underbearer :: Underbearer (n.) One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall..

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment..

Support :: Support (n.) The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining..

Sling :: Sling (v. t.) A contrivance for sustaining anything by suspensio.

Suffer :: Suffer (v. t.) To undergo; to be affected by; to sustain; to experience; as, most substances suffer a change when long exposed to air and moisture; to suffer loss or damage..

Bitts :: Bitts (n. pl.) A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc..

Sustainable :: Sustain (n.) One who, or that which, upholds or sustains; a sustainer..

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To prove; to establish by evidence; to corroborate or confirm; to be conclusive of; as, to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition..

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) Hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like; to support..

Sustainment :: Sustainer (n.) One who, or that which, sustains..

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