Sustenance
['sʌst(ə)nəns;-tɪn-] or ['sʌstənəns]
Definition
(noun.) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; 'they were in want of sustenance'; 'fishing was their main sustainment'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.
(n.) That which supports life; food; victuals; provisions; means of living; as, the city has ample sustenance.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Subsistence, support, maintenance.[2]. Food, victuals, provisions, BREAD.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Support, food, aliment, living, subsistance, livelihood, alimony, provision,nourishment, nutriment, nurture, sustentation, nutrition, pabulum, maintenance
ANT:Starvation, Inanition, nonsubsistance, innutrition, exhaustion
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Examples
- They are kept to do the bidding of the race of therns; to furnish at once their sport and their sustenance. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- In this case there was no material object to feed upon, but the eye of reason saw a probability of mental sustenance in the shape of gossip. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It did not cease till the Atlantic was strewn with wrecks: it did not lull till the deeps had gorged their full of sustenance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We have said that Mr. Weller was engaged in preparing for his journey to London--he was taking sustenance, in fact. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In affection is no pain and no fire, only sustenance and balm. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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