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Webster 1913 Edition
Sustained
Sus-tained′
,Adj.
Held up to a certain pitch, degree, or level; uniform;
as,
. sustained
pasion; a sustained
style of writing; a sustained
note in musicWebster 1828 Edition
Sustained
SUSTA'INED
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Definition 2024
sustained
sustained
English
Verb
sustained
- simple past tense and past participle of sustain
Adjective
sustained (comparative more sustained, superlative most sustained)
- 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.
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- (music) Held at a certain pitch.
Synonyms
- (held at a certain level): constant, continuous, steady
Translations
held at a certain level
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