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sustentate

sustentate verb: to sustain.

Verb

sustentate (third-person singular simple present sustentates, present participle sustentating, simple past and past participle sustentated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To sustain.
    • But he was only the first of a long list of holy and hard-hitting ones who have, by this divine restorative, been sustentated, fortified, corroborated, and consoled.1861, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth, Chapter II

Forms of sustentate

third-person singular presentsustentates
present participlesustentating
past participlesustentated
pastsustentated

Questions about sustentate

What does sustentate mean?
Sustentate means to sustain.
What part of speech is sustentate?
Sustentate is a verb.
What is the past tense of sustentate?
The past tense of sustentate is sustentated.

Words near sustentate in the dictionary

  1. sustentacles
  2. sustentacula
  3. sustentacular
  4. sustentaculum
  5. sustentaculums
  6. sustentate
  7. sustentated
  8. sustentates
  9. sustentating
  10. sustentatio
  11. sustentation

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