life-sustaining

adjective

: helping someone or something to stay alive : supporting or extending life

life-sustaining medical treatment

The storm brought life-sustaining rain/water to the farms.

Examples of life-sustaining in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But the administration sent out stop-work orders to thousands of foreign aid recipients, covering a wide range of services from lifesaving, life-sustaining and good governance that sent the aid world into chaos. —Laura Kelly, The Hill, 16 Apr. 2025

Plants need sunlight to create life-sustaining food. —The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025

As the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) increasingly investigates white dwarf systems, however, Whyte and colleagues developed a model capable of assessing if two key life-sustaining processes could occur in the range of orbits around a white dwarf temperate enough to allow liquid water to exist. —Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025

Future astronauts traveling to the moon may have easier access to life-sustaining water and extractable ice than previously thought, according to new research. —Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 7 Mar. 2025

Rhymes for life-sustaining

• immunostaining
• abstaining
• attaining
• campaigning
• complaining
• constraining
• containing
• detaining
• disdaining
• entraining
• explaining
• maintaining