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

As local municipalities continue to criminalize life-sustaining activities on public property, more of the state’s homeless population will seek refuge in the city of Chicago’s compassionate housing-first approach. —Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2026

Federal funds to support life-sustaining university research have been slashed. —Literary Hub, 30 Mar. 2026

The justices held that patients have a constitutional right of privacy to refuse unwanted life-sustaining treatments and that this right should not be lost when illness, disease or disability take away our ability to choose for ourselves. —Robert S. Olick, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026

Moore Haven Fire Rescue units arrived minutes later and initiated life-sustaining interventions on Perez-Jimenez, ICE said. —Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026

Rhymes for life-sustaining

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