What is the meaning of Sustain?

To maintain, or keep in existence.

To provide for or nourish.

To encourage or sanction (something). (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).

To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.

To allow, accept, or admit (e.g. an objection or motion) as valid.

To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.

To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.

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

Source: wiktionary.org