Results for sustain

Definitions of sustain:

part of speech: noun

SUSTAINER.

part of speech: verb

To bear or hold up; to keep from falling; to keep alive; to maintain; to suffer, as a loss.

part of speech: verb transitive

To hold up: to bear: to maintain: to relieve: to prove: to sanction: to prolong.

Usage examples for sustain:

• The enemy, having remained only a short time, did not sustain the attack of our soldiers, and hurried away on the other side of the town. "The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome", Various

• I shall remember this, and it will sustain me when I bear my witness against you in a court of law. "The Living Link", James De Mille

• With conscious shame they hear the stern rebuke, Nor longer durst sustain the sovereign look. "The Odyssey of Homer", Homer, translated by Alexander Pope

• Then followed these remarkable words:-" Sustain me, Quodlibetarians, or let me go!" "Quodlibet", John P. Kennedy