Both Uses

sustain
in
The Hunt for Red October
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In the process they killed several hundred enemy troops, themselves sustaining a single casualty, a broken ankle.†
Chpt 8. *
As had been learned in missions over Hanoi—in which the B-52 had participated and sustained SAM (surface-to-air missile) damage—the best method of attacking a heavily defended target was to converge from all points of the compass at once, "like the enveloping arms of an angry bear," the squadron commander had put it at the briefing, indulging his poetic nature.†
Chpt 10.

Definitions:

(1) (sustain as in: sustained by her faith)
provide support or necessities
(2) (sustain as in: sustained through the ages)
to continue through time
(3) (sustain as in: sustained wounds)
to suffer (as of injury, damage, or loss)
(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.