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What does sustain mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word sustain? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
  2. (transitive) To provide for or nourish.
  3. (transitive) To encourage (something). (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought):
  4. (transitive) To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
  5. (transitive) To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.
  6. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
  7. To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
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