"soutenait" meaning in Français

{
  "anagrams": [
    {
      "word": "ensoutait"
    },
    {
      "word": "soutaient"
    },
    {
      "word": "teutonisa"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Formes de verbes en français",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Français",
      "orig": "français",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "il/elle/on soutenait"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Français",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "Forme de verbe",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en français",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Léo Malet, L’Ours et la Culotte, 1955, chapitre II",
          "text": "Le gars soutenait un train un peu rapide pour moi, qui me ressentais encore de mon knock-out."
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "soutenir"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de soutenir."
      ],
      "id": "fr-soutenait-fr-verb-L5rjPEeF"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\su.tə.nɛ\\"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "form-of"
  ],
  "word": "soutenait"
}

{
  "anagrams": [
    {
      "word": "ensoutait"
    },
    {
      "word": "soutaient"
    },
    {
      "word": "teutonisa"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Formes de verbes en français",
    "français"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "il/elle/on soutenait"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Français",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "Forme de verbe",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en français"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Léo Malet, L’Ours et la Culotte, 1955, chapitre II",
          "text": "Le gars soutenait un train un peu rapide pour moi, qui me ressentais encore de mon knock-out."
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "soutenir"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de soutenir."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\su.tə.nɛ\\"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "form-of"
  ],
  "word": "soutenait"
}