# sustains

Pronunciation: say "suh-STAYNZ" US/UK /səˈsteɪnz/, AUS /səˈstæɪnz/

## Verb

1. Third-person singular simple present of sustain. — third-person singular simple present indicative of sustain
   - Simple: Third-person singular simple present of sustain. Use this form with he, she, or it.
   - _The old bridge still sustains heavy traffic across the river each day._
   - _Hope sustains the survivors through the worst weeks of the famine._

## Noun

2. Plural of sustain. — plural of sustain
   - Simple: Plural of sustain. Use this form for more than one.
   - _The synthesizer produced rich, glassy sustains that lingered after each chord._
   - _Engineers compared the sustains of several guitar pickups during the test._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/sustains (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).