Enduring vs Sustain - What's the difference?
enduring | sustain |
endurance
* 1854 , James Kennedy, Probable Origin of the American Indians (page 14)
(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. ).
* Dryden
* 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 enduring and sustain
is that enduring is present participle of lang=en while sustain is to maintain, or keep in existence.As nouns the difference between enduring and sustain
is that enduring is endurance while sustain is a mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.As an adjective enduring
is long-lasting.enduring
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(head)Noun
(en noun)- It could be only long years of privations and endurings of hardships that could enable the Esquimaux to traverse over those icy regions with the facilities they have learned to practise
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*sustain
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Noun
(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
