sustain
/səˈsteɪn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The professor had trouble sustaining students’ interest until the end of her lectures."
- "The city came under sustained attack by enemy forces."
- "Sam managed to sustain his erection for two straight hours."
- "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."
- "provisions to sustain an army"
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /səˈsteɪn/
- British English: /səˈsteɪn/