Sustained is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SUSTAINED 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.
ADJECTIVE:
• Held up to a certain pitch, degree, or level; uniform; as, sustained pasion; a sustained style of writing; a sustained note in music.
• maintained at length without interruption or weakening
• (of an electric arc) continuous

Words related to SUSTAINED

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Words that contain SUSTAINED

sustainedly15 unsustained12

How to use SUSTAINED in a sentence

• The Catholic polity was only gradually established, sustained by experience and reason.
• Let us now see whether these positions can be sustained.
• So far as the subjects at issue on the frontier were not of local jurisdiction, in which I was fully and promptly sustained by the Executive, I was met by Mr.
• It sustained by many arguments the wide-spreading unbelief.
• It is rather, I think, a diversion of attention to more sustained and more exacting forms.
• I had but one reason for rejecting the otherwise well sustained hypothesis of my friend.
• You are a modest, interesting woman, and I regret the loss you have sustained.
• Pampeluna in 1813 sustained a siege of more than four months.
• As his head drooped, she sustained it and gradually ceased, until he slept.
• The character of Achilles is well sustained in all his speeches.
• HALF-BREATH In both singing and speaking, the sustained delivery of long phrases or sentences sometimes makes unusual demands on the breath supply.
• He did not appear to have sustained any hurt, or to suffer the least pain.
• The Bavarians being thus sustained, made their post good.
• Theirs is the duty to offset, by the quality of their achievements, the dire losses which are now being sustained in the cradle of the Faith.
• As the body is sustained by the spirit, it is in relation to the spirit an essential phenomenon.
• A report was published, in which it was stated, that if the rent of the building was free, it could not be sustained by the reform system.
• Caesar had no resource left but uncompromising obstruction, which he sustained by enormous bribes.
• Its real value in cold climates is proven by the sustained fondness for the Russian bath in the north of Europe.
• Hence, the painters had an excuse for making the chamber richly furnished, the portico sustained by marble pillars, or decorated with sculpture.
• Her dream was over, and the fancy upon which she had fed and which had sustained her for a time had fled.
• This account is not sustained by any other witness.
• That evening four of the willow rocking-chairs were filled besides the lucky one that sustained the trim figure of Miss Hinkle.
• That measure was sustained by about three fourths of all the members of the Senate.

Similar words containing SUSTAIN without suffix ed

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