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Hold back

verb

Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of. Synonyms: arrest, check, contain, stop, turn back. "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia" , "Contain the rebel movement" , "Turn back the tide of communism"

Keep under control; keep in check. Synonyms: keep, keep back, restrain. "Keep your temper" , "Keep your cool"

Refrain from doing. Synonym: forbear.

Wait before acting. Synonyms: hold off, wait.

Secure and keep for possible future use or application. Synonyms: hold, keep back, retain. "I reserve the right to disagree"

Hold back; keep from being perceived by others. Synonyms: conceal, hold in.

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"Hold back" Quotes from Famous Books

... Chamber will require much time, and will render it almost impossible to introduce a budget this year. To hold back the budget until the first month of the year ensuing, is to run the risk of seeing the deficit increase and ...

— Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time - Volume 1 • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... with my weeping, And struggle to hold back the tears; A fever comes over me, sweeping My veins; and all through me goes creeping A host of ...

— Songs of Labor and Other Poems • Morris Rosenfeld

... there was a shot. Steele got up and went to the window. Craig and Walters were dragging the prisoner across the bridge, the desperado fighting like a demon, and a scarlet woman following them with cries and curses. Fury and Fane were in the rear trying to hold back the gang of some three hundred men. Steele called on Johnston to come with him to read the Riot Act and then rushed out, got a rifle from one of the guard, and ignoring his fevered condition ran across the bridge, covering the crowd with ...

— Policing the Plains - Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police • R.G. MacBeth

... directed by—Mr. Brown, to place the summaries of the reports from the different unions before you. That of the miners is most satisfactory. We must hold back the railways. There may be ...

— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie

... street again in its anxiety to miss nothing. Amzi broke the bar of soap in two, and calmly trimmed half of it to serve as a crayon. As he began to write upon the glass, his guards were hard-pressed to hold back the throng that seemed bent upon pushing the banker through his rival's window. To ease the ...

— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson

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