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sustain
verb as in keep up, maintain
Strong matches
aid, approve, back, bankroll, bear, befriend, brace, buttress, carry, comfort, confirm, convey, endorse, favor, feed, foster, lug, nourish, nurture, pack, prolong, prop, protract, ratify, relieve, supply, support, tote, transfer, transport, uphold, validate, verify
Weak matches
go for, keep alive, keep from falling, keep going, lend a hand, provide for, shore up, stand by, stick up for
Example Sentences
The water recycling project was designed so that even as purified water is piped away, a stream of treated wastewater will still flow to sustain the L.A.
They consciously deployed the nostalgic language of feudalism as a political smokescreen to obscure their moves to consolidate the cultural, political and economic power that would sustain their elevated social positions and the collective ascendancy of their race.
"This group of players have been long into a campaign, some of them have won the Premier League and the Champions League, so of course they can sustain it," he said on TNT Sports.
His own former theater company, Reprise, operated on a subscriber model, and the base of financial support to sustain it dried up, he said.
These fees account for nearly half of the FDA’s budget used to pay its employees and sustain the process of approving and evaluating the medicines the country relies on.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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