hold off
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
resist and fight to a standoff
Dallas had enough of a lead to hold the Broncos off
Types & categories
- stand firm hypernym
Sense 2 verb
wait before acting
the scientists held off announcing their results until they repeated the experiment
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | stand firm |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | waiter |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | wait |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | act |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | hold out |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | delay |