Sustain is valid Scrabble Word

Is sustain a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is sustain valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for SUSTAIN in dictionary:

VERB:

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
maintain or prolong
To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.
Hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like; to support.

To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army.
To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment.
To suffer; to bear; to undergo.
To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit.
To prove; to establish by evidence; to corroborate or confirm; to be conclusive of; as, to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition.
lengthen or extend in duration or space
undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
provide with nourishment
supply with necessities and support
be the physical support of; carry the weight of
establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

NOUN:

an effect or facility on a keyboard or electronic instrument whereby a note can be sustained after the key is released.
One who, or that which, upholds or sustains; a sustainer.
prolongation of a note, by playing technique or electronics

Words related to SUSTAIN

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How to use SUSTAIN in a sentence

He thought that if he could lie down and be quiet and contented for fifteen or twenty minutes he would gain strength and vigor enough to sustain him through a long journey.
Blessed be Jesus Christ and His witnesses! To-night, and to-morrow, and the third day, our Jesus will sustain him.
She would not only encourage them by her letters, but sustain them and sanction their course by her presence.
Angels lift Eve in the air above Adam, in whose side there is now no open wound, and sustain her face to face with God, who calls her into life.
I will be there to sustain Thomas Roch and prevent him from weakening.
There is much Scripture that might be quoted to sustain this opinion.
My contemplated revenge upon that bad man, and my ambition for this boy, are the only two principles that now sustain me.
Let who might sustain a loss, or experience a calamity, it was a matter of indifference to Neal.
The weight which the horse had to sustain was thus very great, and the movements of the cavalry force were, in consequence, slow and hesitating.
Their position in the border should be clearly marked, or the roots may sustain injury when the soil is forked over.

She needed it to sustain her and keep her in the right way.
Hence, it was permitted the Spaniards, in order to sustain life, to take food by harsh means, since indeed kind measures did not suffice.
The complete enjoyment of her sufferings was, however, destined to sustain a severe shock the following morning.
Judging from the stark horror which I experienced myself, I doubted, now, if Burke could sustain the role allotted him.
They were the people rising to sustain the laws and constitution of the Province.
I will pray from the depths of my heart on your behalf, that the Almighty may bless and sustain you and enable you to win memorable victories for His Faith.
Few have been as perseverantly essential, have managed to sustain their emotion and invention so steadily at a height.
I pray that God will sustain you on your trial, and make your innocence appear.
But a few days sufficed to sustain his concern for one who had come to him a stranger, and whom he had known so short a time.
And the girdle was but poorly to come to, and not able to sustain such a rich sword.
She was out to comfort, to sympathize and to sustain.
Large appropriations would therefore be required to sustain and enforce military jurisdiction in every county or parish from the Potomac to the Rio Grande.
This wall was to sustain the refuse which was thrown over the city wall.
There was no department of wholesome reform which he did not sustain.
He brought strange characters about him, particularly some of the witnesses who had helped him to sustain his claim.
To sustain ourselves continuously under the influence of reason, even when our faculties are preserved in their natural balance, is a task too hard for most of us.

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