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Peter1107 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Retain and sustain

what are the differences between retain and sustian?
  

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Hi,

May I first ask if you have looked in your dictionary?Emotion: smile
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Peter1107retain and sustain
= hold back and hold up.

CJ
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well, in longman dictionary, sustain is to keep something continue and retain is to keep something or continue to have something
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Hi Peter,

Well, in longman dictionary, sustain is to keep something continue and retain is to keep something or continue to have something


In what way do you find these definitions unsatisfactory?

Clive
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because in some point they look similar.
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Hi,

Broadly speaking, here's how I see the basic idea of these two words.

sustain - support

retain - keep

Would you like to post a few sentences using these words, so that we ca
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