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holding upverbpresent participle of hold up to assign to a later timeheld up mail delivery until we had a permanent address deferring, delaying, holding off (on), holding over, laying over, postponing, putting off, putting over, remitting, shelving suspendinghesitating, pausing, stayingdetaining, retarding, slowingextending, lengthening, prolonging, protracting, stretching (out)waiting acting, dealing (with), deciding (upon), doing, working (on) to bring (something) to a standstilltraffic was held up for miles by the accident arresting, bringing up, catching, checking, drawing up, fetching up, halting, pulling up, stalling, staying, stilling, stopping baffling, balking, blockading, blocking, bottlenecking, clogging, damming, detaining, hindering, holding, holding back, impeding, obstructing, snagging, stemmingconcluding, cutting off, ending, terminatingcalling, discontinuing, suspendingchoking off, reining (in), repressing, squashing, squelching, stanching(or staunching), stunting, suppressing, turning back carrying on, continuing, following through (with), keeping (on), keeping up, persisting, running onadvancing, faring, going along, marching, moving, proceeding, progressing, wendingactuating, budging, driving, goading, impelling, propelling, pushing, spurring, stirring to create difficulty for the work or activity ofif lack of transportation is the only thing holding you up, I can give you a ride clogging, cramping, embarrassing, encumbering, fettering, hampering, handcuffing, handicapping, hindering, hobbling, hog-tying, holding back, 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 continue to operate or to meet one's needsthe air conditioner held up this year, but it's not going to make it through another summer holding out, keeping up, lasting, prevailing, surviving bearing up, carrying on, coping, enduring, faring, getting along, getting by, getting on, going, hanging in, making out, managing, perseveringabiding, continuing, drawing out, hanging on, holding on, lingering, persisting, remaining, running on, stretching failing, fizzling, giving out, going out, petering (out), running out breaking, breaking down, collapsing, conking (out), crashing, cutting out, dying, expiring, stalling, stoppingrunning down, waning to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same statethe storm's hurricane-force winds did not hold up once it hit the coast abiding, biding, continuing, enduring, holding on, keeping up, lasting, perduring, persisting, remaining, running on lingering, staying, sticking around, tarryingcarrying through, prevailing, surviving ceasing, closing, concluding, desisting, discontinuing, dying, ending, expiring, finishing, lapsing, leaving off, passing, quitting, stopping, terminating, winding up abating, dying (down), ebbing, letting up, moderating, subsiding, waning to withstand scrutiny and gain acceptance or approvalan argument that won't hold up in court flying, passing, standing up, washing getting through, going down, going over, going through, playing, taking, working holding water, passing muster |