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sustained en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /səˈsteɪnd/

Meanings

  1. Held continuously at a certain level.
    • 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. 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
  2. Held at a certain pitch.

Forms

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most sustained Degree=Sup lexicographic
more sustained Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

non-sustained · selfsustained · sustained yield · unsustained · oversustained · sustainedly

Synonyms

steady (held at a certain level) · continuous (held at a certain level) · constant (held at a certain level)

Translations (13)

da vedholdende (held at a certain level) · fi pitkäjänteinen (held at a certain level) · es sustentado (held at a certain level) · de anhaltend (held at a certain level) · el αδιάπτωτος (held at a certain level) · de ununterbrochen (held at a certain level) · fi pitkäkestoinen (held at a certain level) · es sostenido (held at a certain level) · bg постоянен (held at a certain level) · mi whakauka (held at a certain level) · de nicht nachlassend (held at a certain level) · bg незатихващ (held at a certain level) · de kontinuierlich (held at a certain level)

sustained en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /səˈsteɪnd/

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of sustain
    form of sustain