Synonyms for Sustains:

v.
• affirms
- accepts
- acknowledges
- adjures
- admits
- affirms
- approves
- asserts
- assures
- attests
- avers
- avouches
- certifies
- claims
- contends
- corroborates
- declares
- endorses
- expresses
- pledges
- proclaims
- professes
- promises
- pronounces
- propounds
- ratifies
- sets down
- states
- submits
- testifies
- validates
- verifies
- warrants
• aids
- Mothers
- abets
- aids
- assists
- attends
- benefits
- encourages
- endows
- facilitates
- fosters
- funds
- helps
- ministers
- motivates
- relieves
- serves
- supports
- tends
• assists
- Backs
- avails
- favors
- upholds
• continues
- abides
- continues
- extends
- maintains
- perseveres
- persists
- prolongs
- protracts
• defends
- Buffers
- Guards
- Replies
- answers
- argues
- averts
- backfires
- barricades
- bars
- counterattacks
- counters
- covers
- defends
- fends
- opposes
- polices
- protects
- rebuts
- resists
- responds
- retorts
- returns
- safeguards
- saves
- screens
- secures
- shelters
- shields
- wards
• feeds
- Nurses
- breast-feeds
- caters to
- fattens
- feeds
- nourishes
- nurtures
- suckles
- wines and dines
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Independent
- Verb, 3rd person singular present
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Other Related
- Verb, 3rd person singular present
  maintain, preserves, support, supporting, sustainability, sustainable, secures, assists, supports, undergoes, extends, maintains, prolongs, asserts, accommodates, incurs, causes, strengthens, pursues, retains, nourishes, nurtures.

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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
continue, keep, maintain, nourish, preserve, safeguard, support, sustain, uphold.

Usage examples for Sustains

The bend of land which sustains all this magnificence and wealth, is very much like that opposite Montgomery.

"Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847"

Albert James Pickett

In dreams, in delirium, in insanity, in temporary disease of particular nerves of sensation, in some phases of magnetic influence, the ideas which Berkeley sustains so forcibly are admittedly delusions.

"Theological Essays"

Charles Bradlaugh

"Mr. Wallifarro," declared the judge, "the court sustains the prosecution's motion of dismissal.

"The Tempering"

Charles Neville Buck

Famous quotes with Sustains

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

Sai Baba
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

Rita Dove
Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.

Andrea Dworkin
Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.

Jim Grant
What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.

David Guterson

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