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Yes, sustain is playable

...and is worth 9 points.

Found in the following dictionaries

Enable (Words with friends)
SOWPODS (Collins Scrabble Words)
OTCWL2014 (NASPA Word List 2014)
TWL06 (NASPA List 2006)

"Sustain" Definition

noun

A musical effect that prolongs a note's resonance .

verb-transitive

To experience or suffer: sustained a fatal injury.
To keep in existence; maintain.
To keep up (a joke or assumed role, for example) competently.
To prove or corroborate; confirm.
To supply with necessities or nourishment; provide for.

verb

To support by adequate proof .
To support as true, legal, or just.
To allow or admit as valid .
To bear up under.
To buoy up .

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