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

Part of Gloria's responsibilities included providing life-sustaining care for a disabled adult who suffers from physical and mental disabilities. —Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 2 May 2025

These foods insist on time and care—caramelization via the Maillard reaction is a central component of all cooking, a transformation from inedible to life-sustaining. —Bedatri D. Choudhury, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025

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

Rhymes for life-sustaining

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