Sustain vs Harden - What's the difference?
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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. ).
* 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
To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure).
(ergative) To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure).
(dated) To become or make a person or thing resistant or less sensitive.
Sustain is a related term of harden.
As nouns the difference between sustain and harden
is that sustain is (music) a mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano while harden is .As a verb sustain
is to maintain, or keep in existence.sustain
English
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
Derived terms
* sustainable * sustainedlyAnagrams
* English transitive verbsharden
English
Verb
(en verb)- When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. — KJV, Exodus 4:21