Definition of withhold

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Withhold (v. t.) To keep; to maintain; to retain.

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Defer :: Defer (v. t.) To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.
Retention :: Retention (n.) The act of withholding; retraint; reserve.
Detention :: Detention (n.) The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.
Retainer :: Retainer (n.) The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right.
Estrange :: Estrange (v. t.) To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with..
Unbelief :: Unbelief (n.) The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism.
Defraud :: Defraud (v. t.) To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld..
Incredulity :: Incredulity (n.) The state or quality of being i/credulous; a withholding or refusal of belief; skepticism; unbelief; disbelief.
Hiding :: Hiding (n.) The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment..
Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To withhold; to forbear.
Unpraise :: Unpraise (v. t.) To withhold praise from; to deprive of praise.
Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To keep back or from; to withhold.
Withholding :: Withholding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Withhol.
Boycott :: Boycott (v. t.) To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott..
Reservation :: Reservation (n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve..
Absent :: Absent (v. t.) To withhold from being present.
Indulge :: Indulge (v. t.) to yield to the desire of; to gratify by compliance; to humor; to withhold restraint from; as, to indulge children in their caprices or willfulness; to indulge one's self with a rest or in pleasure..
Deny :: Deny (v. t.) To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request..
Distance :: Distance (n.) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve.
Subtractive :: Subtraction (n.) The withdrawing or withholding from a person of some right to which he is entitled by law.
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