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📖 Определения и значения для слова sustain

📒 to provide enough of what somebody/something needs in order to live or exist

  • Which planets can sustain life?
  • I only had a little chocolate to sustain me on my walk.
  • The love and support of his family sustained him during his time in prison.

📒 to make something continue for some time without becoming less

  • She managed to sustain everyone's interest until the end of her speech.
  • Kangaroos can sustain high speeds over long distances.
  • the sustaining pedal of a piano (= that allows a note to continue sounding for a long time)

📒 to experience something bad

  • to sustain damage/an injury/a defeat
  • The company sustained losses of millions of dollars.

📒 to provide evidence to support an opinion, a theory, etc.

  • The evidence is not detailed enough to sustain his argument.

📒 to support a weight without breaking or falling

  • The ice will not sustain your weight.

📒 to decide that a claim, etc. is true or legally valid

  • The court sustained his claim that the contract was illegal.
  • Objection sustained! (= said by a judge when a lawyer makes an objection in court)
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