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holds backverbpresent tense third-person singular 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 clogs, cramps, embarrasses, encumbers, fetters, hampers, handcuffs, handicaps, hinders, hobbles, hog-ties, holds up, impedes, inhibits, interferes (with), manacles, obstructs, shackles, short-circuits, stymies, ties up, trammels balks, checks, constrains, curbs, reins, restrainsbinds, chains, halters, leashes, tethers, tiesarrests, brakes, delays, retains, retardsbarricades, blockades, blocks, roadblocksbogs (down), mireschokes, smothers, stifles, strangles, suffocatesbaffles, foils, frustrates, stumps, thwartsderails, disrupts, sabotagesmuzzles, represses, suppressesconfines, hedges (in), hems (in) cramps one's style, gives a hard time aids, assists, facilitates, helps clears, makes way, opens, unclogs, unplugs, unstopsfrees, liberates, releases, untiesloosens, smooths(also smoothes)encourages, furthers, promotes to refrain from openly showing or utteringheld back her tears until she was alone chokes (back), pockets, represses, sinks, smothers, stifles, strangles, submerges, suppresses, swallows controls, governs, managesbridles, checks, curbs, quashes, quellsbottles up, containsmuffles, squelches expresses, looses, releases, takes out, unleashes, vents |