Retrain vs Sustain - What's the difference?
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to train again; especially, to train or study in a new subject or job
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(music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
To maintain, or keep in existence.
To provide for or nourish.
To encourage (something ).
To experience or suffer (an injury, etc. ).
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* Shakespeare
To confirm, prove, or corroborate.
To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
* Dryden
As verbs the difference between retrain and sustain
is that retrain is to train again; especially, to train or study in a new subject or job while sustain is to maintain, or keep in existence.As a noun sustain is
(music) a mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.retrain
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(wikipedia sustain) (en noun)Verb
(en verb)- provisions to sustain an army
- Shall Turnus, then, such endless toil sustain ?
- You shall sustain more new disgraces.
- to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition
- A foundation sustains''' the superstructure; an animal '''sustains''' a load; a rope '''sustains a weight.
- (Shakespeare)
- his sons, who seek the tyrant to sustain
