Word Meanings - WITHHOLD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. Spenser. 2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. Forbid who will, none shall

Additional info about word: WITHHOLD

1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. Spenser. 2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good. Milton. 3. To keep; to maintain; to retain. To withhold it the more easily in heart. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WITHHOLD)

• Abstain
• Refrain
• forbear
• refuse
• demur
• avoid
• cease
• stop
• keep back
• desist
• discontinue
• withhold
• scruple
• Arrest Seize
• take
• capture
• restrain
• hold
• detain
• apprehend
• Deny
• Refuse
• reject
• negative
• contradict
• gainsay
• disclaim
• disavow
• disown
• oppose
• Detain
• Stay
• keep
• arrest
• check
• delay
• embargo
• Grudge
• Spare
• retain
• covet
• envy

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WITHHOLD)

• Release
• dismiss
• liberate
• free
• discharge
• expedite
• Loose
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet
• Grant
• afford
• yield
• concede
• acquiesce
• Spend
• squander
• waste
• lavish
• scatter
• expend
• pour
• vent

Related words: (words related to WITHHOLD)

• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• DEMURE
  good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• NEGATIVE
  Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition. (more info) 1. Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• CONTRADICTIVE
  Contradictory; inconsistent. -- Con`tra*dict"ive*ly, adv..
• SPENDER
  One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.