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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /səˈsteɪnd/
- Hyphenation: sus‧tained
- Rhymes: -eɪnd
Verb
sustained
- simple past 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.
- (music) Held at a certain pitch.
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