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

The mission is the newest generation of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment — or GRACE — which tracks the movement and storage of Earth’s life-sustaining water, and has documented declining aquifers, melting ice sheets and rising sea levels. — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026

Police said hospital staff told them the child died after life-sustaining measures were withdrawn. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 15 Sep. 2026

Under the law, once a patient is declared brain-dead, a hospital can withdraw life-sustaining measures. — ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026

Treating every digital workload as equally essential would place private computing demand on the same level as life-sustaining public services. — Monica Sanders, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for life-sustaining

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