Food and drink
Synonyms for sustain
Synonyms for sustain: keep, nourish and prolong. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for sustain
Interchangeable with sustain in this sense
Audited under sustain's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one sustain carries in that sense.
- keepverb, in the sense "supply with necessities and support"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name sustain as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
one of these comes from sustain's own entry in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
supply with necessities and support
The money will sustain our good cause.
The true synonym
keep
Same sentence, swapped: The money will keep our good cause.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot sustain is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- corroborate
- suffer
- feature
Where sustain turns up in the game
sustain is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play sustain
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sustain reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other food and drink words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. sustain carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.