HOLD BACK meaning: Withhold or restrain from action

We found 22 dictionaries that define the word hold back:

General (16 matching dictionaries)

hold back, hold back (someone or something ): Merriam-Webster
hold back: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
hold-back, hold-back, hold back: Collins English Dictionary
hold back: Vocabulary.com
hold-back: Wordnik
hold back: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
hold back: Wiktionary
hold back: Dictionary.com
Hold Back: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
hold back: Rhymezone
hold back: FreeDictionary.org
hold back: Mnemonic Dictionary
hold back: TheFreeDictionary.com
hold back: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

hold back: Legal dictionary
hold back: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

hold back: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

hold back: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

hold back: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hold back)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To act with reserve; to contain one's full measure or power.
▸ verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To contain; stop.
▸ verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To delay the progress of, especially in school.

Similar:

hold off, wait, hold in, keep, retain, keep back, arrest, hold, restrain, turn back, more...

Opposite:

release, let go, let loose

Types:

reticent, reserved, uncommunicative, withhold, restrain, suppress, more...

Phrases:

I Won't Hold You Back, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, I Can't Hold Back, Hold Back the Dawn, don't hold back, more...

Adjectives:

tarry, hold, stay, relent, suspense

Colors:

gray, beige, taupe, mauve, olive, more...