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to steal from someone using violence or the threat of violence: They held the same bank up twice in one week.
If you hold someone up, or if you hold up something such as their behaviour, you make their behaviour known to other people, so that they can criticize or praise it. She said the picture that had appeared in a Sunday newspaper had held her up to ridicule.
: to continue in the same condition without failing or losing effectiveness or force. she's holding up under the strain. music that holds up twenty years later. Synonyms. Noun.
Synonyms for HELD UP: postponed, delayed, deferred, laid over, held over, held off (on), put off, put over; Antonyms of HELD UP: worked (on), decided (upon), dealt (with), did, acted, wrought (on), kept (on), carried on
to delay or block the movement or progress of somebody/something. An accident is holding up traffic. The project was held up by various legal problems. related noun hold-up. to use or present somebody/something as an example. She's always holding up her children as models of good behaviour. His ideas were held up to ridicule. hold up something.
The verb hold has many meanings and one of those is hold up which means to be delayed for something. So, an example could be: I was held up by the terrible downpour, so I could not make it on time.
To offer or present as an example: held the essay up as a model for the students. 4. To continue to function without losing force or effectiveness; cope: managed to hold up under the stress.
ˈhold-up noun [ countable] 1 a situation that stops something from happening or making progress SYN delay traffic hold-ups on the highway Despite the odd hold-up, we finished on time. 2 informal an attempt to rob a place or person by threatening them with a weapon SYN robbery a bank hold-up → hold up1 Examples from the Corpus hold-up • It came a...
to support someone or something and stop them from falling. to delay or block the movement or progress of someone or something An accident is holding up traffic. related noun holdup. to use or present someone or something as an example She's always holding up her children as models of good behavior. His ideas were held up to ridicule.
to delay someone or something: Traffic was held up for several hours by the accident. SMART Vocabulary: các từ liên quan và các cụm từ. (STEAL) to steal from someone using violence or the threat of violence: They held the same bank up twice in one week.
