Sustain

1. n. One who, or that which, upholds or sustains; a sustainer.
2. v. t. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.
3. v. t. Hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like; to support.
4. v. t. To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army.
5. v. t. To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
6. v. t. To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment.
7. v. t. To suffer; to bear; to undergo.
8. v. t. To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit.
9. v. t. To prove; to establish by evidence; to corroborate or confirm; to be conclusive of; as, to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.