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hold back

English

  1. 🔊 hold back
    “She conceals her anger well”
  2. 🔊 refrain from doing
    “she forbore a snicker”
  3. 🔊 wait before acting
    “the scientists held off announcing their results until they repeated the experiment”
  4. 🔊 prevent the action or expression of
    “hold back your anger”
  5. 🔊 secure and keep for possible future use or application
    “The landlord retained the security deposit”
  6. 🔊 hold back, as of a danger or an enemy
    “Arrest the downward trend”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 apretar to hold back
  2. 🔊 retener to hold back
  3. 🔊 trabar to hold back

Similar words

restrain keep keep back check turn back arrest stop contain conceal hold in retain hold keep back wait hold off forbear abstain abstain from arrest avoid avoid excess backpedal backwater begrudge