tr.v. sus·tained, sus·tain·ing, sus·tains
- To keep in existence; maintain.
- To supply with necessities or nourishment; provide for.
- To support from below; keep from falling or sinking; prop.
- To support the spirits, vitality, or resolution of; encourage.
- To bear up under; withstand: can't sustain the blistering heat.
- To experience or suffer: sustained a fatal injury.
- To affirm the validity of: The judge has sustained the prosecutor's objection.
- To prove or corroborate; confirm.
- To keep up (a joke or assumed role, for example) competently.
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