Synonym: arrest, check, conceal, contain, forbear, hold, hold in, hold off, keep, keep back, restrain, retain, stop, suppress, turn back, wait. Similar words: feedback, back, back up, back on, back of, cut back, call back, set back. Meaning: v. 1. hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of 2. keep under control; keep in check 3. refrain from doing 4. wait before acting 5. secure and keep for possible future use or application 6. hold back; keep from being perceived by others.
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(31) Like Franco, Arrese was trying to hold back the march of history.
(32) For reasons such as these, the property sector is increasingly concerned that these regulations might hold back major developments.
(33) There was a long pause as we all tried to hold back the giggles.
(34) Only with difficulty was she able to hold back the tears, forcing herself to smile.
(35) I must now face a boy who is not in the least bit a friend, who will not hold back.
(36) The police put up barriers to hold back the crowds.
(37) Perhaps he will hold back, not least for fear of the international backlash such a violation of democracy would trigger.
(38) No amount of censorship could hold back the rise of a new social consciousness bursting to find expression.
(39) When she reaches him, the security guard stands back a pace, and her people hold back.
(40) Quietly she gave her version of events, often struggling to hold back the tears.
(41) It is, to be sure, highly unlikely that superstars hold back their best ideas.
(42) The security guards were powerless to hold back the enraged crowd.
(43) The security men tried to hold back crowds of reporters pressing round the President's car.
(44) We can make some progress, but all we can do is hold back the forest destruction.
(45) Aztec settlers built their pyramid city on an island and created dikes to hold back floods.
(46) The police had already erected crash barriers to hold back the advancing crowds.
(47) He'd made no attempt to hold back as he knew there was more to come.
(48) The only understandable reason to hold back would be if you didn't know the answer yourself.
(49) And I lay where I fell,(www.Sentencedict.com) fighting to hold back the tears which threatened to engulf me.
(50) Nothing could be accomplished until a great wall of rocks and earth was thrown up to hold back the raging waters.
(51) So they sent in four coachmen who stood with whips extended between them to hold back the mob.
(52) If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely. Mitch Albom
(53) A £16.1m dam will hold back a 2.6-mile-long artificial lake to be known as the Roadford Reservoir.
(54) Both ministries are acutely aware that Britain is suffering from skills shortages that could damage the economy and hold back business.
(55) They put up huge barriers to hold back the crowd.
(56) The high cost of clinical trials and animal tests has forced Beecham to hold back products that looked promising in research.
(57) He could no longer hold back convulsive laughter.
(58) Hold back from the street, two vases, all-day blue.
(59) The fresh-keeping areca catechu can hold back its beneficial composition and chew characteristics, and can avoid damage of smoking areca catechu to mouth.
(60) Members of the South Dakota Army National Guard place sandbags to hold back the rising Missouri River in Dakota Dunes.
More similar words: feedback, back, back up, back on, back of, cut back, call back, set back, pay back, back away, draw back, go back on, go back to, keep back, look back, give back, backyard, fall back on, bring back, double back, background, back and forth, date back to, quarterback, hold, holy, whole, hold out, hold in, hold on.