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provide support or necessities
- The place was self-sufficient: modest in comparison with the empires around it, the Landing nevertheless produced everything required to sustain life except ice, wheat flour, and articles of clothing, supplied by river-boats from Mobile.p. 4.8
sustain = provide necessities of
- Her Missionary Society refreshments added to her reputation as a hostess (she did not permit Calpurnia to make the delicacies required to sustain the Society through long reports on Rice Christians); she joined and became Secretary of the Maycomb Amanuensis Club.p. 172.2
- The last note would linger as long as there was air to sustain it.p. 311.2
sustain = support
sustain = support
There are no more uses of "sustain" in To Kill a Mockingbird.
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