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See definition of holding back on Dictionary.com
  • as inretaining
  • as insuppressive
  • as indetention

synonyms for holding back

  • accommodating
  • arresting
  • cherishing
  • commemorating
  • confining
  • embracing
  • employing
  • engaging
  • having
  • hiring
  • holding
  • keeping
  • owning
  • possessing
  • preserving
  • remembering
  • restraining
  • saving
  • securing
  • seizing
  • suppressing
  • sustaining
  • taking
  • withholding
  • working
  • covering up
  • curbing
  • quelling
  • repressing
  • repressive
  • silencing
  • stifling
  • subduing
  • withholding
  • arrest
  • custody
  • delay
  • incarceration
  • internment
  • quarantine
  • apprehension
  • bust
  • detainment
  • hindrance
  • immurement
  • impediment
  • pen
  • pickup
  • pinch
  • restraint
  • retention
  • withholding
  • arrestation
  • holding pen
  • keeping in
  • nab
  • time up the river
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
On this page you'll find 70 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to holding back, such as: accommodating, arresting, cherishing, commemorating, confining, and embracing.
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How to use holding back in a sentence

Consequently, a number of litigants are holding back their suits until there shall be an Audiencia.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUS
With fixed bayonets the troops partially succeeded in holding back the swelling crowd.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMAN
Fergan and his assistants withdrew to the mob which the file of soldiers was holding back from the pyre.
THE PILGRIM'S SHELL OR FERGAN THE QUARRYMANEUGNE SUE
But even before 1906 there were endless intimations that the dams holding back great reservoirs of discussion were crumbling.
THE NEW MACHIAVELLIHERBERT GEORGE WELLS
Then he lay motionless, holding back his breath, and listening to the beating of his heart and to the footsteps on the stairs.
GALLEGHER AND OTHER STORIESRICHARD HARDING DAVIS
She had not found them; perhaps she had at times been near them and in her holding back—not knowing, afraid—had let them go by.
FIDELITYSUSAN GLASPELL
It is said to have been produced by the efforts of the horses in “holding back,” while descending the long and steep hills.
THE OLD PIKETHOMAS B. SEARIGHT
The sledge having been dug out, one man went in front to keep the course and two men brought up the rear, holding back the load.
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARDDOUGLAS MAWSON
But her brain was saying, since the crack still remained a half-inch crack, "Larry understands—he's holding back Red Hannigan!"
CHILDREN OF THE WHIRLWINDLEROY SCOTT
His plans had never been based on holding back the seemingly weak forces of Cathay.
VICTORYLESTER DEL REY
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WORDS RELATED TO HOLDING BACK

  • apprehension
  • arrest
  • arrestation
  • bust
  • custody
  • delay
  • detainment
  • hindrance
  • holding back
  • holding pen
  • immurement
  • impediment
  • incarceration
  • internment
  • keeping in
  • nab
  • pen
  • pickup
  • pinch
  • quarantine
  • restraint
  • retention
  • time up the river
  • withholding
  • accommodating
  • arresting
  • cherishing
  • commemorating
  • confining
  • embracing
  • employing
  • engaging
  • having
  • hiring
  • holding
  • holding back
  • keeping
  • owning
  • possessing
  • preserving
  • remembering
  • restraining
  • saving
  • securing
  • seizing
  • suppressing
  • sustaining
  • taking
  • withholding
  • working
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.