SUSTAIN Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com Sustain definition: to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure See examples of SUSTAIN used in a sentence
SUSTAIN definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary If you sustain something, you continue it or maintain it for a period of time But he has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age [VERB noun] The parameters within which life can be sustained on Earth are extraordinarily narrow [VERB noun] a period of sustained economic growth throughout 1995 [VERB-ed]
Sustaining - definition of sustaining by The Free Dictionary To keep in existence; maintain, continue, or prolong: sustain an effort b To keep up (a joke or assumed role, for example) competently 2 a To supply with necessities or nourishment; provide for: the income needed to sustain a family b To support the spirits, vitality, or resolution of; encourage: We were sustained by her unflagging optimism
SUSTAINING - Definition Meaning - Reverso English Dictionary sustaining definition: providing support or nourishment continuously Check meanings, examples, usage tips, pronunciation, domains, and related words Discover expressions like "self-sustaining", "sustaining program", "life-sustaining"
sustaining - WordReference. com Dictionary of English to undergo or suffer (injury, loss, etc ): The army sustained heavy losses to keep (a person, the spirits, etc ) from giving way, as when suffering trials, etc : The thought of seeing his family again sustained him to keep up or going, as an action or process: to sustain a conversation
SUSTAIN | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary US The judge sustained (= accepted) the lawyer's objection The soil in this part of the world is not rich enough to sustain a large population It proved particularly difficult to sustain the interest of the older children This year's harvest is insufficient to sustain a growing population