Continue
Continue verb - Allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature.
Usage example: We cannot continue several servants any longer
Sustain is a synonym for continue in maintain topic. In some cases you can use "Sustain" instead a verb "Continue", when it comes to topics like hold, support, outlast, persist.
Sustain
Sustain verb - Lengthen or extend in duration or space.
Usage example: We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible
Continue is a synonym for sustain in maintain topic. You can use "Continue" instead a verb "Sustain", if it concerns topics such as hold, process, outlast, keep up.
Nearby Word: sustaining
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Both words in one sentence
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Our rotting flesh will continue to feed and sustain it after our deaths, until the day the thing sleeping in the heart of the world reawakens naturally, and shatters the planet like an egg.
Source: Videogame / Darkest Dungeon -
He was actually dead, but used Spiral Power to sustain himself and continue the fight.
Source: Normally, I Would Be Dead Now - Artemis Fowl really doesn't want his mother to know he's turned to a life of crime in order to sustain his family and continue the search for his Disappeared Dad, even if she does suspect he takes after his father in this respect.
Source: Don't Tell Mama
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Sustain and Continue. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/continue/sustain
Continue & Sustain. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/continue/sustain>.
Sustain or Continue. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/continue/sustain.
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