sustain
verb (used with object)
to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
am sustaining
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present progressiveof sustain (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Business is in a worse condition than I have ever known it; and I am sustaining, almost daily, losses that are becoming alarming.
From Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
