withhold
/wɪθˈhoʊld/ verb C1- To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner. · The bank withheld her credit card.
- To keep (information, assent, etc.) to oneself rather than revealing it. · withhold vital information· a withheld phone number
- To stay back, to refrain. · I’ll withhold from asking about it.
He/she/it withholds · Past withheld · Past participle withheld · -ing form withholding
Verb forms
- Base form
- withhold
- He/she/it
- withholds
- Past
- withheld
- Past participle
- withheld
- -ing form
- withholding
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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Surely you will not withhold it any longer.”
Elizabeth was glad to be taken to her immediately; and Jane, who had only been withheld by the fear of giving alarm or inconvenience, from expressing in her note how much she longed for such a visit, was delighted at her entrance.
But, in spite of the certainty in which Elizabeth affected to place this point, as well as the still more interesting one of Bingley’s being withheld from seeing Jane, she felt a solicitude on the subject which convinced her, on examination, that she did not consider it entirely hopeless.
In short, my dear aunt, I should be very sorry to be the means of making any of you unhappy; but since we see, every day, that where there is affection young people are seldom withheld, by immediate want of fortune, from entering into engagements with each other, how can I promise to be wiser than so many of my fellow-creatures, if I am tempted, or how am I even to know that it would be wiser to resist?
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