Meanings (ES + gloss)
sostener • sustentar
To maintain, or keep in existence.
The city came under sustained attack by enemy forces.
The professor had trouble sustaining students’ interest until the end of her lectures.
sostener • sustentar
To provide for or nourish.
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
provisions to sustain an army
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