Synonyms for be holding
- attention
- eye
- glance
- glimpse
- peek
- review
- stare
- view
- beholding
- case
- cast
- contemplation
- flash
- gander
- gaze
- gun
- inspection
- introspection
- leer
- marking
- noticing
- observation
- once-over
- reconnaissance
- regard
- regarding
- scrutiny
- sight
- slant
- speculation
- squint
- surveillance
- survey
- swivel
- viewing
- evil eye
- keeping watch
- look-see
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WORD ORIGIN
Old English bihaldan (West Saxon behealdan) "give regard to, hold in view," also "to keep hold of, to belong to," from be- + haldan, healdan (see hold). Related: Beheld; beholding. A common West Germanic compound, cf. Old Saxon bihaldan "hold, keep," Old Frisian bihalda, Old High German bihaltan, German behalten, but "[t]he application to watching, looking, is confined to English" [OED].
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