sustained

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈsteɪnd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: sus‧tained
• Rhymes: -eɪnd

Verb

sustained

1. simple past and past participle of sustain

Adjective

sustained (comparative more sustained, superlative most sustained)

1. Held continuously at a certain level.
   • 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:

     Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.

2. (music) Held at a certain pitch.

Synonyms

• (held at a certain level): constant, continuous, steady

Derived terms

• non-sustained
• sustained yield

Translations

held at a certain level

Bulgarian: постоянен (bg) (postojanen), незатихващ (nezatihvašt) Danish: vedholdende (da) Finnish: pitkäkestoinen (fi), pitkäjänteinen (fi) Greek: αδιάπτωτος (el) (adiáptotos) Maori: whakauka Spanish: sustentado (es), sostenido (es)

Anagrams

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