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holding backverbpresent participle 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 clogging, cramping, embarrassing, encumbering, fettering, hampering, handcuffing, handicapping, hindering, hobbling, hog-tying, holding up, impeding, inhibiting, interfering (with), manacling, obstructing, shackling, short-circuiting, stymieing, trammeling(or trammelling), tying up(or tieing up) balking, checking, constraining, curbing, reining, restrainingbinding, chaining, haltering, leashing, tethering, tying(or tieing)arresting, braking, delaying, retaining, retardingbarricading, blockading, blocking, roadblockingbogging (down), miringchoking, smothering, stifling, strangling, suffocatingbaffling, foiling, frustrating, stumping, thwartingderailing, disrupting, sabotagingmuzzling, repressing, suppressingconfining, hedging (in), hemming (in) cramping one's style, giving a hard time aiding, assisting, facilitating, helping clearing, making way, opening, unclogging, unplugging, unstoppingfreeing, liberating, releasing, untying(or untieing)loosening, smoothingencouraging, furthering, promoting to refrain from openly showing or utteringheld back her tears until she was alone choking (back), pocketing, repressing, sinking, smothering, stifling, strangling, submerging, suppressing, swallowing controlling, governing, managingbridling, checking, curbing, quashing, quellingbottling up, containingmuffling, squelching expressing, loosing, releasing, taking out, unleashing, venting |