Sustain
Antonyms of SUSTAIN
- contest, starve, forbear, surrender, abstain, maintain, harm, disagree, fall under, circumvent, disprove, hold, evade, dismiss, dodge, refuse, take, trouble, shorten, throw down, disallow, resist, shun, neglect, invalidate, hinder, halt, weaken, oppose, miss, stop, disapprove, deny, veto, misunderstand, reject, keep, give up, let go, shake off, condemn, decline, avoid, discourage, hurt, obstruct, fight, refrain, injure, escape, deprive, repudiate, let down, ignore, turn down, spurn, drop, contradict, bypass, elude, abbreviate, discontinue.
Examples of usage:
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Of these ten men, Moses, to judge by the character of his demands upon the Lord, thought it incumbent on him to make an example, in order to sustain his own credit. "The Emancipation of Massachusetts" by Brooks Adams
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Secretary Campbell's report was a confession of failure to sustain public credit. "Jefferson and his Colleagues A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty, Volume 15 In The Chronicles Of America Series" by Allen Johnson
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We've become a great middle- class country; middle- class values sustain us. "Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present" by Various
