Definition of sustain

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Sustain (v. t.) 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..

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Sustenance :: Sustenance (n.) The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life..
Load :: Load (v.) A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load..
Agent :: Agent (a.) Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action..
Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To suffer; to bear; to undergo.
Prop :: Prop (v. t.) To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state..
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..
Stand :: Stand (v. t.) To endure; to sustain; to bear; as, I can not stand the cold or the heat..
Sufferable :: Suffer (v. i.) To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.
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..
Apyrous :: Apyrous (a.) Incombustible; capable of sustaining a strong heat without alteration of form or properties.
Foster :: Foster (v. t.) To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius..
Sustaltic :: Sustainment (n.) The act of sustaining; maintenance; support.
Sustaining :: Sustained (imp. & p. p.) of Sustai.
Heartstring :: Heartstring (n.) A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart..
Bearer :: Bearer (n.) One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries..
Case :: Case (n.) One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word..
Sling :: Sling (v. t.) A contrivance for sustaining anything by suspensio.
Mast :: Mast (n.) A pole, or long, strong, round piece of timber, or spar, set upright in a boat or vessel, to sustain the sails, yards, rigging, etc. A mast may also consist of several pieces of timber united by iron bands, or of a hollow pillar of iron or steel..
Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation..
Support :: Support (v. t.) To endure without being overcome, exhausted, or changed in character; to sustain; as, to support pain, distress, or misfortunes..
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