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held off (on)verbpast tense of hold off (on) to assign to a later timewe held off on accepting the invitation in the hopes that something better would come along deferred, delayed, held over, held up, laid over, postponed, put off, put over, remitted, shelved suspendedhesitated, paused, stayeddetained, retarded, slowedextended, lengthened, prolonged, protracted, stretched (out)waited acted, dealt (with), decided (upon), did, worked (on)(or wrought (on)) |