All 8 Uses
sustain
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Black: The Birth of Evil
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- You do remember a report three months ago about unsustainable mutations of the vaccine.†
Chpt Prol.unsustainable = not able to continuestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsustainable means not and reverses the meaning of sustainable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Our contact said the mutations were unsustainable and died out in minutes.†
Chpt Prol.
- Suffice it to say there is no way Thomas Hunter could have known that the Raison Vaccine was subject to unsustainable mutations.†
Chpt Prol. *
- You do know it's capable of mutating, because according to our internal sources, it also mutates at a lower heat, but the mutations never could sustain themselves for more than a generation or two.†
Chpt 27
- So the mutation is sustained even when the temperatures come down?†
Chpt 31
- Will the wood there sustain an explosion?†
Chpt 33
- If Tom wasn't mistaken, some color had returned to their skin, and the cuts they had sustained during their argument were not as red.†
Chpt 34 *
- A long, sustained note that poured grief into the canyon like molten lead.†
Chpt 34
Definitions:
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(1)
(sustain as in: sustained by her faith) provide support or necessities
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(2)
(sustain as in: sustained through the ages) to continue through time
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(3)
(sustain as in: sustained wounds) to suffer (as of injury, damage, or loss)
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, sustained can be voiced by a judge in a court of law to indicate that an objection is upheld.