Sustains is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SUSTAINS in dictionary:

VERB:
• SUSTAIN, to maintain by providing with food and drink
• strengthen or support physically or mentally
• bear (the weight of an object) without breaking or falling
• undergo or suffer (something unpleasant, especially an injury)
• cause to continue for an extended period or without interruption
• (of a performer) represent (a part or character) convincingly
• uphold, affirm, or confirm the justice or validity of
NOUN:
• an effect or facility on a keyboard or electronic instrument whereby a note can be sustained after the key is released.

Words related to SUSTAINS

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How to use SUSTAINS in a sentence

• But something sustains me wonderfully through these dreadful trials.
• The victim sustains a shock of illumination hardly less than divine.
• As it is, something like a hope and a motive sustains me still.
• In the person of Nicodemus, it is he who sustains his dead Lord in the gloom of the sombre Duomo.
• Duty has its rewards as well as its pain, and the knowledge that I am passing through a time of probationship sustains me.
• A deep religious conviction unclouded by superstition sustains his courage.
• The feeling it occasions is novel and agreeable, sometimes, indeed, delightful, and so far sustains me when I am inclined to be gloomy.
• Use, it must be remembered, is the great law that pervades, sustains, and holds in harmonious order, the whole universe.
• How shall I arm myself against them? By uniting all those in affection, who are united in the belief of the great principles of the Godhead that made and sustains the world.
• The spectacle of effort is what awakens and sustains our own effort.
• He sustains his position not by argument, but by hope and assertion.
• For instance, the Government of Saxony sustains financially an Esperanto institute in Dresden, and that does a great deal of good work.
• As it is, something like a hope and motive sustains me still.
• It was impossible to exterminate them wholly till that discovery which constitutes the power and sustains the civilisation of our race.
• The unfinished head of Nicodemus, who sustains the body of his dear Lord, is his own portrait, and, unfinished as it is, expresses the deepest devotion and sadness.
• The present head of the family sustains right well the reputations of the worthies who went before him.
• This is the religion which sustains in war, because possessed in peace.
• It forms the superstructure on which the crumbling column of aristocracy sustains its capital pretensions amid the ruins of privileged exemption from the universal law of change.
• There is a something which survives deposed princes, and which feeds and sustains their parasites.
• Nowhere does the saint need more direct teaching of the Spirit than in regard to the relatioin he sustains to this world.
• Many a church now sustains its own missionary or missionaries.
• Is it not a difficulty for a lover? Yet love sustains him.
• With that I have met the expenses of this camp for most of this year and of the other troops whom your Majesty sustains in your pay.
• Perhaps you may know the character the school sustains.
• But this we have no means of determining, and, as we shall presently see, his subsequent life rather sustains the opposite opinion.

Similar words containing SUSTAIN without suffix s

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