Spanish word
sostener
/sosteˈneɾ/
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- Part of speech
- verb
- Level
- B2
- Taught in
- Latin America, Spain
Meanings
- to maintain a claim
- to hold, to hold up, to prop up, to sustain, to underpin (physically)
- to sustain, to support, to keep (i.e. to give continuity to)
- to support, to uphold, to hold, to sustain, to contend, to maintain, to argue, to claim, to underpin, to defend
- back(to support)
- bear(to support or sustain)
- carry through(perform successfully to the end)
- claim(to state a new fact)
- cling(hold tightly)
- contend(strive in debate)
- maintain(to declare or affirm a point of view to be true)
- prop(support)
- support(to keep from falling)
- sustain(to maintain something)
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