Sustain vs Stiffen - 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
Sustain is a related term of stiffen.
In lang=en terms the difference between sustain and stiffen
is that sustain is to confirm, prove, or corroborate while stiffen is to become stiff.As verbs the difference between sustain and stiffen
is that sustain is to maintain, or keep in existence while stiffen is to make stiff.As a noun sustain
is (music) a mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.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
