Sustain

What do we mean by sustain?

To keep in existence; maintain, continue, or prolong. transitive verb

To keep up (a joke or assumed role, for example) competently. transitive verb

To supply with necessities or nourishment; provide for. transitive verb

To support the spirits, vitality, or resolution of; encourage. transitive verb

To support from below; keep from falling or sinking; prop. transitive verb

To bear up under; withstand. transitive verb

To experience or suffer. transitive verb

To affirm the validity of. transitive verb

A capacity of a musical instrument to continue the resounding of a note or tone. noun

One who or that which upholds; a sustainer. noun

To hold up; bear up; uphold; support.

To hold suspended; keep from falling or sinking: as, a rope sustains a weight; to sustain one in the water.

To keep from sinking in despondency; support.

To maintain; keep up; especially, to keep alive; support; subsist; nourish: as, provisions to sustain a family or an army; food insufficient to sustain life.

To support in any condition by aid; vindicate, comfort, assist, or relieve; favor.

To endure without failing or yielding; bear up against; stand: as, able to sustain a shock.

To suffer; have to submit to; bear; undergo.

A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.

To hold up, to bear with Urban Dictionary

Susans alter ego in team goodness Urban Dictionary

The ability to achieve, and sustain a male erection. Urban Dictionary

Someone who is extremely picky about all things sustainable. Will call other people on their unsustainable behaviour. Combination of sustainable and anal. Urban Dictionary

Sustainability is a lens through which to view all issues. The sustainability movement encompasses environmental justice and social justice, because one cannot be obtained without the other. It means living life to the fullest without compromising future generations' ability to do so. It respects the interconectedness of all life and acknowledges the responsibility that each person has to consider the effects that his actions have on other life forms, both living and to be born. Urban Dictionary

The ability to endure a balence of economic, social and environmenal well being now and in the future. Urban Dictionary

A word that left leaning urban Caucasians coined to feel good about themselves. Urban Dictionary

Repeatable indefinitely with no negative side effect whatsoever. Urban Dictionary

1. A hippy dippy cosmic cupcake term loosely applied to just about everything environment related to sound like you know what the fuck you're talking about. Urban Dictionary

That which keeps something in existence. (The similar word "sustenance" usually means food.) Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to sustain:
sustain, mustain.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word sustain:
pedal, veto, momentum, enhance, fusion, injuries, damage, healthy, growth, themselves, reaction, itself, casualties, sufficient, relationships.

Words that rhyme with sustain:
vein, train, plane, fein, strain, chain, vain, domain, disdain, maintain, crain, germane, mundane, arcane, refrain, ascertain, pain, plain, campaign, rain, retain, again, bane, inane, grain, rein, attain, obtain, brain, gain, reign, explain, feign, wane, pertain, lane, membrane, main, stain, complain, profane, drain, trane, crane, skein, contain, abstain, cane, insane, remain, constrain, fain, deign, hurricane, terrain, urbane, restrain, vane, mane, legerdemain, entertain, ordain, bain, humane, dane, pane, detain, sane, cain, champagne, thane, swain, arraign, lain, airplane, jane, migraine, partain, wain, sprain, twain, spain, germain, maine, quain, fane, slain, shane, moraine, ane, germaine, saine, zane, cocaine, romaine, kane, wayne, inhumane, aine, propane.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective sustain:
ability, release, database, development.

Consonant match to sustain:
cistern, sistine, cystine, cysteine, sestine, ceased in, cist in, cyst in, saw stone, see stern, see stone.

Words that sound like sustain:
sustain, sistine, cysteine, cystine, sistan, seston, sustained, sustains, sustainer, chastain, system, systeme, sextain, sutton, sassoon, soutane, sunstone, susto, susta, sun stone, huston, mustain, chasteen, husten, shasteen, the stone, sixteen, sista, cistern, sexton, sestina, sitten, sit-in, sisson, sisto, sison, set in, sitton, cesta, sistren, sixtine, sit in, setton, sesto, set on, sesta, sit on, sestine, cistron, cista, sextan, satan, stain, sudden, satin, sedan, distain, suntan, sandstone, heston, sussed, saison, seton, sun tan, seaton, saxton, destain, sateen, sasson, histone, sartain, seitan, sat on, sucked in, sust, sussman, soton, csun, soapstone, sasin, sussing, seatown, cheston, seisin, sasan, satang, c-town, seussian, sasta, susman, soutine, cetin, hesston, ccn, c town, seiten, seten, sikeston, cyton, soudain.