sustain
To maintain, or keep in existence.
All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the Party and prevent the true nature of present-day society from being perceived.
To provide for or nourish.
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
To encourage or sanction (something).
To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
[…] if you omit / The offer of this time, I cannot promise / But that you shall sustain moe new disgraces, / With these you bear already.
Shall Turnus then such endless Toil sustain, / In fighting Fields, and conquer Towns in vain:
To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.
(law, of a judge) To allow, accept, or admit (e.g. an objection or motion) as valid.
To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
When I desir’d their leave that I might pity him, they took from me the use of mine own house, charg’d me on pain of perpetual displeasure neither to speak of him, entreat for him, nor any way sustain him.
His Sons, who seek the Tyrant to sustain, / And long for Arbitrary Lords again,
(music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
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