Translation for "sorreggere" to english

Sorreggere

verb

• support
• hold up

Translation examples

support verb

- Disse il vecchietto, le fragili ossa protese a sorreggere la sua pelle raggrinzita.
He said, oldly, his brittle bones straining to support the weight of his wrinkly skin.

Le stelle di Wolf-Rayet possono essere considerate come bombe ad orologeria, perche' sono cosi' massicce che non possono vivere a lungo, e una volta esaurito tutto il loro carburante nucleare, non c'e' piu' niente a sorreggere la stella contro l'insistente forza di gravita'.
Wolf-Rayet stars can be thought of as sort of a time bomb, because they're so massive that they can't live for very long, and once they've burned up all of their nuclear fuel, there's nothing left to support the star against the relentless pull of gravity.

Non mi sorreggere, non sono vecchia!
I do not support it, are not old!