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sustained meaning

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    Definition of sustained in English Dictionary

  • VerbPREsus-
    1. simple past tense and past participle of sustain.
    2. AdjectiveCOMmore sustainedSUPmost sustained
      1. Held continuously at a certain level.
        1. 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.
      3. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • In the nineteenth century, the sustained metaphors of sf—non-mimetic fiction—were reconceived with the aid of science, the same science that Arthur Miller quails before today.
          • Anorexics ignore that sustained emaciation ends in starvation.
          • For a year past, he knew the inevitable, yet by his indomitable will kept strongheartedly to his' work, sustained by a rugged vitality.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Adjectives
          • Verbs
            • Verb forms
              • Participles
                • Past participles
                • Verb simple past forms
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            Source: Wiktionary

            Meaning of sustained for the defined word.

            Grammatically, this word "sustained" is an adjective. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
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