to withholden
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- verb
- /wɪðˈhoʊldən/
- Archaic
- The payment was withholden due to a dispute.
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Watch on YouTubeI could confidently tell you I know why God withheld that wisdom from you.
- I could confidently tell you I know why God withheld that wisdom from you.
- And we now know that they withheld evidence.
- In the middle of these discussions, he withheld funding.
- I so you know, I have issue with the fact that the footage was, was withheld from me, right?
- So I have never, and, and I mean never, I have never withheld dessert or whatever.
- OK, Just before we kind of get into all the corruption and evidence that was withheld.
- And it usually means almost all the time withheld opinions.
- As if scribbled, the withheld stares back onto its insolent intention.
- So where there was evidence that took the case in elsewhere, that was suppressed and withheld and they went with me.
Examples
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The king's favor was withholden from those who disobeyed his orders.
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Justice had long been withholden from the oppressed people.
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In old documents, you may find the word withholden used instead of 'withheld'.
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He felt that his trust had been withholden from him.
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The king's favor was withholden from those who disobeyed his orders.
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Justice had long been withholden from the oppressed people.
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He felt that his trust had been withholden from him.
Synonyms
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Kept in someone's hand or owned by them
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Withholden is an old form of the verb withhold, made from the parts with- meaning 'back' and hold meaning 'keep'. It literally means 'kept back' or 'refused to give', which is why older writing uses withholden where we now say 'withheld'.