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Sustain vs Surpass - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between sustain and surpass

is that sustain is to confirm, prove, or corroborate while surpass is to go beyond, especially in a metaphoric or technical manner; to exceed.

As verbs the difference between sustain and surpass

is that sustain is to maintain, or keep in existence while surpass is to go beyond, especially in a metaphoric or technical manner; to exceed.

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)
  • (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To maintain, or keep in existence.
  • To provide for or nourish.
    • provisions to sustain an army
  • To encourage (something ).
  • To experience or suffer (an injury, etc. ).
  • * Dryden
    • Shall Turnus, then, such endless toil sustain ?
  • * Shakespeare
    • You shall sustain more new disgraces.
  • To confirm, prove, or corroborate.
    • to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition
  • To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
    • A foundation sustains''' the superstructure; an animal '''sustains''' a load; a rope '''sustains a weight.
  • To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * Dryden
    • his sons, who seek the tyrant to sustain

    Derived terms

    * sustainable * sustainedly

    Related terms

    * sustenance * sustainment

    Anagrams

    * English transitive verbs

    surpass

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To go beyond, especially in a metaphoric or technical manner; to exceed.
    • The former problem student surpassed his instructor's expectations and scored top marks on his examination.
    The heavy rains threatened to surpass the capabilities of the levee, endangering the town on the other side.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=“Two or three months more went by?; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”}}

    See also

    * exceed * excel * outdo * outstrip

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