HOLD (IN) Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

hold (in)

verb

Definition of hold (in)

as in to hide

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Verb

The officers also have drones and helicopters equipped to track people hiding in the dark.

— Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 29 July 2026
Here, cocktails, snacks, and afternoon tea are served daily and make for a great little spot to hide out from the heavy heat of the day.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2026

Definition of hide

Verb

The narrator spends years assembling the truth of this death, concealed by his family, and discovers that Calcutta and Dhaka experienced those riots as mirror images of each other.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
The sign concealed a smaller building that was a holdout on the corner of West 34th Street and Broadway when Macy's was built in the early 1900s.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026

Definition of conceal

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Yet statistics alone obscure another story and one that is rarely centered in public memory.

— Jallicia Jolly, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Their selective invocations of Washington may have obscured his complicity, but some abolitionists truly believed doing so would help bring the horror of American slavery to an end.

— John Garrison Marks, The Atlantic, 25 July 2026

Definition of obscure

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But some of its employees reportedly still worked from the US — and Americans could still use it to place bets thanks to virtual private networks, which cloak users’ locations.

— Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 24 July 2026
In recent years, the typical Shears song has cloaked descriptions of paranormal encounters in hardcore distortion and cartoon sound effects, fleshing out the twins’ strange world while hinting at weirder mysteries beneath the surface.

— Jude Noel, Pitchfork, 22 July 2026

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