Usually means: Maintain validity under scrutiny, examination.
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  1. hold water: Merriam-Webster
  2. hold water: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hold water: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hold water: Vocabulary.com
  5. hold water: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hold water: Wiktionary
  7. hold water: Dictionary.com
  8. hold water: Rhymezone
  9. Hold Water: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. hold water: FreeDictionary.org
  11. hold water: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. hold water: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. hold water: Idioms

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  1. hold water: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hold water)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To withstand scrutiny or criticism; to be valid.

Similar:
hold good, stand to, wetproof, waterproof, moistureproof, keep, wear, sustentate, weatherproof, rainproof, more...

Opposite:
fall apart, collapse, crumble, disintegrate, disprove

Types:
ad hominem, red herring, ad populum, slippery slope, false dilemma, circular argument, more...

Phrases:
to hold water, container to hold water, it may hold water, more...

Adjectives:
hold, stay, tarry, stick, pocket, stout, stay at home

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Similar:
hold good, stand to, wetproof, waterproof, moistureproof, keep, wear, sustentate, weatherproof, rainproof, more...

Opposite:
fall apart, collapse, crumble, disintegrate, disprove

Types:
ad hominem, red herring, ad populum, slippery slope, false dilemma, circular argument, more...

Phrases:
to hold water, container to hold water, it may hold water, more...

Adjectives:
hold, stay, tarry, stick, pocket, stout, stay at home



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