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sustentating

sustentating is the present participle and gerund of sustentate.

Meaning of sustentate

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

Questions about sustentating

What is sustentating the present participle and gerund of?
Sustentating is the present participle and gerund of sustentate.

Words near sustentating in the dictionary

  1. sustentaculum
  2. sustentaculums
  3. sustentate
  4. sustentated
  5. sustentates
  6. sustentating
  7. sustentatio
  8. sustentation
  9. sustentational
  10. sustentations
  11. sustentative

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