sustained

• IPA^(key): /səˈsteɪnd/

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• Hyphenation: sus‧tained
• Rhymes: -eɪnd

sustained

1. simple past and past participle of sustain

sustained (comparative more sustained, superlative most sustained)

1. Held continuously at a certain level.
   • 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:

     Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.

2. (music) Held at a certain pitch.

• (held at a certain level): constant, continuous, steady

• insudates