English-Italian translations for sustain

• mantenere
  E' essenziale per mantenere la pesca sostenibile. It is essential to maintain sustainable fisheries.
  Dobbiamo lavorare per mantenere e per ampliare la cultura scientifica in Europa. We must work to sustain, and enhance, a scientific culture in Europe.
  L'obiettivo della politica comune della pesca è di mantenere il patrimonio ittico a un livello sostenibile. The aim of the common fisheries policy is to maintain sustainable fish stocks.
• sorreggere

Definition of sustain

• To maintain, or keep in existence
• To provide for or nourish
• To encourage or sanction .
• To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold
• To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support
• To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate
• A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano

Examples

• The professor had trouble sustaining students’ interest until the end of her lectures.
• The city came under sustained attack by enemy forces.
• provisions to sustain an army
• The building sustained major damage in the earthquake.
• to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition
• A foundation sustains the superstructure; an animal sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.

Related words

• sustained
• sustainability
• sustainable
• unsustainable
• sustainably
• unsustainability
• self-sustaining
• sustainer
• sustainment