transcription, транскрипция: [ səsteɪn ]
( sustains, sustaining, sustained)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you sustain something, you continue it or maintain it for a period of time.
But he has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age...
...a period of sustained economic growth throughout 1995.
VERB : V n , V-ed
2.
If you sustain something such as a defeat, loss, or injury, it happens to you. ( FORMAL )
Every aircraft in there has sustained some damage...
A seventeen-year-old tourist died late last night of injuries sustained in yesterday’s bomb blast.
VERB : V n , V-ed
3.
If something sustains you, it supports you by giving you help, strength, or encouragement. ( FORMAL )
The cash dividends they get from the cash crop would sustain them during the lean season...
VERB : V n