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sustained

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • //səˈsteɪnd//

Held continuously at a certain level.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of sustainsimple past and past participle of sustain

adjective

  1. 1

    Held continuously at a certain level.

    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. 2

    Held at a certain pitch.

Forms

comparative
more sustained
superlative
most sustained
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).