hold
/hoʊld/ verb A2- To grasp or grip. · Hold the pencil like this.
- To contain or store. · This package holds six bottles.
- To have and keep possession of something. · Hold my coat for me.· The general ordered the colonel to hold his position at all costs.
- To reserve. · Hold a table for us at 7:00.
- To cause to wait or delay. · Hold the elevator.
- To halt or delay (medication) temporarily.
- To detain. · Hold the suspect in this cell.
- To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person). · to hold true· The proposition holds.
He/she/it holds · Past held · Past participle held · -ing form holding
Verb forms
- Base form
- hold
- He/she/it
- holds
- Past
- held
- Past participle
- held
- -ing form
- holding
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- hold back To act with reserve; to contain one's full measure or power.
- hold by To subscribe to (an idea , rule, authority, etc.); to per...
- hold down To restrain; to check.
- hold in To keep something to oneself; to prevent from escaping.
- hold off To delay (someone or something) temporarily; to keep at bay.
- hold on To grasp or grip firmly.
- hold onto To manage to keep something.
- hold out To hold (something) out; to extend (something) forward.
- hold over (Of a resource) To support or sustain someone for a limit...
- hold up To wait or delay.
From the library
So she took hold of his arm and managed to get along fairly well.
See if I do not prick your neck with my sting.” The Draught-Mule replied, “I do not heed your threats; I only care for him who sits above you, and who quickens my pace with his whip, or holds me back with the reins.
The emperor, now king of the petty Island of Elba, after having held sovereign sway over one-half of the world, counting as his subjects a small population of five or six thousand souls,—after having been accustomed to hear the “Vive Napoléons” of a hundred and twenty millions of human beings, uttered in ten different languages,—was looked upon here as a ruined man, separated forever from any fresh connection with France or claim to her throne.
“She has held all the Munchkins in bondage for many years, making them slave for her night and day.
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