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hold at gunpoint

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  • Hold — Hold, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Held}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Holding}. {Holden}, p. p., is obs. in elegant writing, though still used in legal language.] [OE. haldan, D. houden, OHG. hoten, Icel. halda, Dan. holde, Sw. h[*a]lla, Goth. haldan to feed, tend… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • hold up — {v.} 1. To raise; lift. * /John held up his hand./ 2. To support; hear; carry. * /The chair was too weak to hold up Mrs. Smith./ 3. To show; call attention to; exhibit. * /The teacher held up excellent models of composition for her class to… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • hold up — {v.} 1. To raise; lift. * /John held up his hand./ 2. To support; hear; carry. * /The chair was too weak to hold up Mrs. Smith./ 3. To show; call attention to; exhibit. * /The teacher held up excellent models of composition for her class to… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • hold up — vt: to make the victim of a holdup: rob at gunpoint Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. hold up I …   Law dictionary

  • Hold up — (h[=o]ld [u^]p ), v. t. 1. To rob, usually at gunpoint or knifepoint. [PJC] 2. To delay; as, bad weather held up the satellite launch for two days. [PJC] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • hold up someone — hold up (someone/something) 1. to delay someone or something. Traffic was held up for several hours by the accident. Sorry to hold you up, but my train was late. 2. to try to steal from a person or place by using violence. Two masked men held up… …   New idioms dictionary

  • hold up something — hold up (someone/something) 1. to delay someone or something. Traffic was held up for several hours by the accident. Sorry to hold you up, but my train was late. 2. to try to steal from a person or place by using violence. Two masked men held up… …   New idioms dictionary

  • hold up — (someone/something) 1. to delay someone or something. Traffic was held up for several hours by the accident. Sorry to hold you up, but my train was late. 2. to try to steal from a person or place by using violence. Two masked men held up the… …   New idioms dictionary

  • hold someone hostage — hold (or take) someone hostage seize and keep someone as a hostage they were held hostage by armed rebels | taken hostage at gunpoint …   Useful english dictionary

  • hold — hold1 [ hould ] (past tense and past participle held [ held ] ) verb *** ▸ 1 carry ▸ 2 stop someone/something from moving ▸ 3 put arms around someone ▸ 4 (be able to) contain ▸ 5 have ▸ 6 continue in same state ▸ 7 keep/stop something ▸ 8 not… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • hold — I UK [həʊld] / US [hoʊld] verb Word forms hold : present tense I/you/we/they hold he/she/it holds present participle holding past tense held UK [held] / US past participle held *** 1) [transitive] to carry something using your hands or arms Can… …   English dictionary

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