withhold

withhold is a   Verb

Definition:

[1] To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. Spenser.

[2] To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good. Milton.

[3] To keep; to maintain; to retain. [Obs.] To withhold it the more easily in heart. Chaucer.

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