Sustained vs Survive - What's the difference?
sustained | survive |
(sustain)
Held continuously at a certain level.
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Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
To live longer than; to outlive.
* Shakespeare
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , X:
To live past a life-threatening event.
(sports) Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.
As verbs the difference between sustained and survive
is that sustained is (sustain) while survive is of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.As an adjective sustained
is held continuously at a certain level.sustained
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(head)Adjective
(en adjective)Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}
Synonyms
* (held at a certain level) constant, continuous, steadysurvive
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Verb
(surviv)- His children survived''' him; he was '''survived by his children.
- I'll assure her of / Her widowhood, be it that she survive me, / In all my lands and leases whatsoever.
- ‘I am afraid, as will happen in other cases, the treaty of alliance has survived the amicable dispositions in which it had its origin.’
- He did not survive the accident.
