sustain

Other forms of sustain

past tense

sustained·

present participle

sustaining·

third person

sustains·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sustain

What does sustain mean?

sustain means "lengthen or extend in duration or space". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sustain?

sustain has 2 syllables: su-stain. The stress falls on "stain". In IPA it is /səˈsteɪn/.

What is another word for sustain?

Close synonyms include prolong, keep up, suffer, have, get. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sustain a common word?

sustain is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sustain?

3 words rhyme with sustain. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.