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Life-sustaining   Listen
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life-sustaining  adj.  Being the seat or source of life; performing a necessary function in the living body; as, the need for life-sustaining air and water.
Synonyms: vital.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Life-sustaining" Quotes from Famous Books



... have rotted off, some may bear degenerate fruit, some in unpruned luxuriance may bring forth nothing but leaves. Be it so. My belief is that the branch I cleave to retains its vital vigor and produces life-sustaining fruit." ...
— The Actress in High Life - An Episode in Winter Quarters • Sue Petigru Bowen

... there was only one way out: to smash the great dome covering one end of the asteroid and so release the life-sustaining air inside. Captain Carse achieved this by sending the space-ship Scorpion crashing through the dome unmanned, and he, Friday and Eliot Leithgow were caught up in the out-rushing flood of air and catapulted into space, free of the dome and Dr. Ku Sui. Clad as they were ...
— The Bluff of the Hawk • Anthony Gilmore

... thee Eternity had its foundation: all Sprung forth from thee—of light, joy, harmony, Sole origin: all life, all beauty thine. Thy word created all, and doth create; Thy splendor fills all space with rays divine; Thou art and wert, and shalt be glorious, great; Life-giving, life-sustaining Potentate, Thy chains the unmeasured universe surround— Upheld by thee, by thee inspired with ...
— Recreations in Astronomy - With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work • Henry Warren



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