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

Macronutrients are involved in life-sustaining processes, including providing energy, producing hormones, supporting growth, and more. —Jillian Kubala, Health, 11 Oct. 2025

Damage to the economy can sometimes be even more deadly than just the blocking of critical, life-sustaining imports. —Mark Weisbrot, Mercury News, 27 July 2025

But a person with Parkinson’s who needs refrigerated medication or a ventilator-dependent patient in a flood-prone region needs their life-sustaining oxygen far more than a flashlight and granola bar. —John Samuels, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025

Most people understand breathing’s role as a life-sustaining function with stress-relieving properties. —Dana Santas, CNN Money, 4 July 2025

Rhymes for life-sustaining

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