Usually means: Maintain or support over time.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word sustain:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. sustain: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sustain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sustain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sustain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sustain: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sustain, sustain: Wordnik
  7. sustain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sustain: Wiktionary
  9. sustain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sustain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sustain: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sustain: Dictionary.com
  13. sustain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sustain: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SUSTAIN (military), Sustain (composition), Sustain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sustain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sustain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sustain: Rhymezone
  19. Sustain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sustain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sustain: Free Dictionary
  22. sustain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sustain: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. sustain: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sustain, Sustain: Game Dictionary
  2. sustain: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SUSTAIN: Acronym Finder
  2. sustain: Idioms

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)

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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 encourage or sanction (something).
verb:  (transitive) To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.
verb:  (law, of a judge) To allow, accept, or admit (e.g. an objection or motion) as valid.
verb:  To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
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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