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Usually means: Maintain or support over time
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word sustain:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. sustain: Merriam-Webster
  2. sustain: Wordnik
  3. sustain: Cambridge English Dictionary
  4. sustain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  5. sustain: TheFreeDictionary.com (American Heritage)
  6. sustain: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  7. sustain: Oxford English Dictionary
  8. sustain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  9. sustain: Collins English Dictionary
  10. sustain: Vocabulary.com
  11. sustain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. sustain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. sustain: Random House Unabridged Dictionary (1997)
  14. sustain: Dictionary.com
  15. sustain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. sustain: Rhymezone (WordNet)
  17. sustain: Mnemonic Dictionary

General (historical) (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sustain (1755), sustain (1773): Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
  2. sustain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  3. sustain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

User-edited (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sustain: Wiktionary
  2. SUSTAIN (military), Sustain (disambiguation), Sustain (composition), Sustain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. sustain: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. sustain: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. sustain: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. sustain: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sustain, Sustain: Game Dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SUSTAIN: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sustain: The Folk File

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See sustained as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
verb:  (transitive) To provide for or nourish.
verb:  (transitive) To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.
verb:  To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
verb:  (transitive) To encourage or sanction (something).
verb:  (transitive) To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
verb:  (law, of a judge) To allow, accept, or admit (e.g. an objection or motion) as valid.
verb:  To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
noun:  (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.

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