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Hold up

verb

1.

Be the physical support of; carry the weight of. Synonyms: hold, support, sustain. "He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam" , "What's holding that mirror?"

2.

Hold up something as an example; hold up one's achievements for admiration.

3.

Cause to be slowed down or delayed. Synonyms: delay, detain. "She delayed the work that she didn't want to perform"

4.

Rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat. Synonym: stick up.

5.

Continue to live through hardship or adversity. Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, last, live, live on, survive. "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America" , "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents" , "How long can a person last without food and water?"

6.

Resist or confront with resistance. Synonyms: defy, hold, withstand. "The new material withstands even the greatest wear and tear" , "The bridge held"

7.

Resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.. Synonyms: hold water, stand up. "This theory won't hold water"

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"Hold up" Quotes from Famous Books

... her father and mother, for the expenses of herself and her little boy. With 120 more, supplied by Jos, this family of four people, attended by a single Irish servant who also did for Clapp and his wife, might manage to live in decent comfort through the year, and hold up their heads yet, and be able to give a friend a dish of tea still, after the storms and disappointments of their early life. Sedley still maintained his ascendency over the family of Mr. Clapp, his ex-clerk. Clapp remembered the time when, sitting ...

— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray

... latter case that a schoolmaster's success (in the best sense) depends almost entirely upon his being able to arrive at sound principles and at the same time to avoid mannerism in applying them. For instance, it is of no use to hold up for a boy's consideration a principle which is quite outside his horizon; what one has to do is to try and give him a principle which is just a little ahead of his practice, which he can admire and also believe ...

— The Upton Letters • Arthur Christopher Benson

... go to school," he said, blowing a little smoke ring at her. "Miss Pat will go to the sculpturing as usual, but may have a hand in any game here that she is able to hold up. You'll learn a heap, Paddy Malone, if you keep those ears of yours open, for Grantly, the fellow who is doing the bas-reliefs for the State Capitol building, will be about occasionally, and he's a cracker-jack ...

— Miss Pat at School • Pemberton Ginther

... of silence spreads out from another. My spirit widens so, Circle beyond circle. I hold up the stars no longer with the pupils of my eyes. Hands, legs, arms float off from me. I ...

— Precipitations • Evelyn Scott

... lips upon her neck. "You—midget! And you think I'm going to devour you? Well, perhaps I shall some day if you go on running away. There's a terrible threat! Now hold up your head, Daphne—Daphne—and let me ...

— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell

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