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Synonyms for held up

Grammar : Adj
Spell : hohld
Phonetic Transcription : hoÊŠld

Définition of held up

Origin :
  • Old English haldan (Anglian), healdan (West Saxon), "to contain, grasp; retain; foster, cherish," class VII strong verb (past tense heold, past participle healden), from Proto-Germanic *haldanan (cf. Old Saxon haldan, Old Frisian halda, Old Norse halda, Dutch houden, German halten "to hold," Gothic haldan "to tend"), originally "to keep, tend, watch over" (as cattle), later "to have." Ancestral sense is preserved in behold. The original past participle holden was replaced by held beginning 16c., but survives in some legal jargon and in beholden.
  • Hold back is 1530s, transitive; 1570s, intransitive; hold off is early 15c., transitive; c.1600, intransitive; hold out is 1520s as "to stretch forth," 1580s as "to resist pressure." Hold on is early 13c. as "to maintain one’s course," 1830 as "to keep one’s grip on something," 1846 as an order to wait or stop. To hold (one's) tongue "be silent" is from c.1300. To hold (one's) own is from early 14c. To hold (someone's) hand "give moral support" is from 1935. Phrase hold your horses "be patient" is from 1844. To have and to hold have been paired alliteratively since at least c.1200, originally of marriage but also of real estate.
  • adj robbed
  • adj postponed
Example sentences :
  • He held up the note before Austin's eyes, with shaking fingers.
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • She held up her face against them; but to herself she said that everything had not been done.
  • Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
  • He held up two fingers as he passed, with a "Benedic, fili mi!"
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • You sewed this up'—and he held up his arm showing a healed scar.
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • He held up his hand and began to say he couldn't, but I insisted.
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • I took off my hat, and held up my face to get all its cooling touch.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • Dick's step was light, but the colonel heard him and held up a finger.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • As he rose she went on her knees to him, and held up her hands to him.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • But Mr Pecksniff held up his finger as a caution to her not to interrupt him.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • As he said this, he held up his hand to bespeak Martin's attention.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

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