sustain🔊

To maintain, or keep in existence.

To provide for or nourish.

To encourage or sanction (something).

To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).

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.

(music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.