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held backverbpast tense of hold back to create difficulty for the work or activity ofthe only thing holding them back from joining the swim team is lack of transportation clogged, cramped, embarrassed, encumbered, fettered, hampered, handcuffed, handicapped, held up, hindered, hobbled, hog-tied, impeded, inhibited, interfered (with), manacled, obstructed, shackled, short-circuited, stymied, tied up, trammeled(or trammelled) balked, checked, constrained, curbed, reined, restrainedbound, chained, haltered, leashed, tethered, tiedarrested, braked, delayed, retained, retardedbarricaded, blockaded, blocked, roadblockedbogged (down), miredchoked, smothered, stifled, strangled, suffocatedbaffled, foiled, frustrated, stumped, thwartedderailed, disrupted, sabotagedmuzzled, repressed, suppressedconfined, hedged (in), hemmed (in) cramped one's style, gave a hard time aided, assisted, facilitated, helped cleared, made way, opened, unclogged, unplugged, unstoppedfreed, liberated, released, untiedloosened, smoothedencouraged, furthered, promoted to refrain from openly showing or utteringheld back her tears until she was alone choked (back), pocketed, repressed, sank(or sunk), smothered, stifled, strangled, submerged, suppressed, swallowed controlled, governed, managedbridled, checked, curbed, quashed, quelledbottled up, containedmuffled, squelched expressed, loosed, released, took out, unleashed, vented |