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  • verbpostpone
  • verbrob

synonyms for hold up

  • delay
  • detain
  • hinder
  • impede
  • interrupt
  • stay
  • stop
  • suspend
  • hold off
  • interfere
  • pause
  • prorogue
  • retard
  • set back
  • slow down
  • waive
On this page you'll find 104 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hold up, such as: delay, detain, hinder, impede, interrupt, and stay.

antonyms for hold up

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  • advance
  • aid
  • allow
  • assist
  • continue
  • encourage
  • facilitate
  • forward
  • further
  • help
  • permit
  • promote
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    How to use hold up in a sentence

    Now let me hold up my Head a little, and then we shall see how far the Features hit me!
    A LETTER FROM MR. CIBBER TO MR. POPECOLLEY CIBBER
    Had put on her Sunday gown, and had nothing to do now but hold up her head high, and sup her soup out of a silver spoon.
    THE WORLD BEFORE THEMSUSANNA MOODIE
    Ill never be able to hold up my head again if its not liked, Jess pursued.
    THE GIRLS OF CENTRAL HIGH ON THE STAGEGERTRUDE W. MORRISON
    Toward that pedal that sounded the hold-up alarm, flashing it right to local police headquarters.
    HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUS
    The kind they turn off the assembly line to hold up the fronts of pool parlors.
    HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUS
    Bill Talpers'd go where he could wear good clothes every day, and his purty wife'd hold up her head with the best of them!
    MYSTERY RANCHARTHUR CHAPMAN
    Get planted till dark, then hold up th' first bloke you see an' take 'is duds.
    PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMAN
    The father did not impress her as being the man to hold up her fainting head or ease her bruised heart.
    THE CIRCULAR STUDYANNA KATHARINE GREEN
    She would free and right herself in her own way, and they might hold up what hands they pleased.
    MARRIAGE LA MODEMRS. HUMPHRY WARD
    If this can be cleared away—and upon my word I do believe it can—we shall all be able to hold up our heads again.
    TALES AND FANTASIESROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
    SYNONYM OF THE DAY
    OCTOBER 26, 1985
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    WORDS RELATED TO HOLD UP

    • curb
    • defer
    • delay
    • discontinue
    • hold off
    • hold over
    • hold up
    • postpone
    • prorogue
    • put off
    • recess
    • restrain
    • shelve
    • stay
    • suspend
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