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How to pronounce “sustain”
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Pronunciation guide for sustain
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of sustain with real speech in context.
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that basically he was worried that to sustain the attention
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
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that basically he was worried that to sustain the attention
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “sustain”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
- (transitive) To provide for or nourish.
- (transitive) To encourage or sanction (something). (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- (transitive) To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
- (transitive) 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.
- [Noun]
- (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
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