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.

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The doctor removes the life-sustaining equipment and waits. —

Jen Christensen, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024 But Wright and other patients reliant on insulin fear drug companies' attention to the profitable blockbuster meds comes at the expense of a life-sustaining drug that's been around for more than a century. —

Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024 The seawater gets heated by the magma, which sends it shooting back up into the deep ocean, along with a wealth of life-sustaining minerals that support a whole ecosystem of organisms in proximity to the vents. —

Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024 There were people to come and give them life-sustaining materials such as food and water. —

Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for life-sustaining

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