HOLD BACK: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for HOLD BACK?

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Associations of "Hold back" (30 Words)

anachronism	A person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age. The town is a throwback to medieval times an anachronism that has survived the passing years.
backslide	Relapse into bad ways or error. There are many things that can cause slimmers to backslide.
backward	Retarded in intellectual development. She left the room without a backward glance.
backwards	At or to or toward the back or rear. Count backwards from twenty to ten.
behind	A kick that sends the ball over a behind line or a touch that sends it between the inner posts scoring one point. Campbell grabbed him from behind.
degeneracy	The state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities. Moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration.
degeneration	The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality. Overgrazing has caused serious degeneration of grassland.
discontinuity	Lack of connection or continuity. There is no significant discontinuity between modern and primitive societies.
grab	Obtain or get (something) quickly or opportunistically. She grabbed the child s hand and ran out of the room.
inverse	Opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity. The age of such a universe is simply the inverse of the Hubble constant.
obtain	Receive a specified treatment (abstract. The price of silver fell to that obtaining elsewhere in the ancient world.
posthumous	Occurring or coming into existence after a person’s death. He was awarded a posthumous Military Cross.
regain	Get or find back; recover the use of. She regained control of herself.
regress	Calculate the coefficient or coefficients of regression of a variable against or on another variable. The regress is a return to Puritan values.
regression	Returning to a former state. A past life regression.
regressive	Relating to or marked by psychological regression. A regressive personality.
relapse	Deteriorate in health. He responded well to treatment but then suffered a relapse.
restitution	The resumption of an object’s original shape or position through elastic recoil. Upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing.
retention	The action of absorbing and continuing to hold a substance. The children s retention of facts.
retreat	Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity. His proposals were clearly unreasonable and he was forced to retreat.
retroactive	(especially of legislation) taking effect from a date in the past. A big retroactive tax increase.
retrograde	Show retrograde motion. The glacier retrogrades.
retrogression	The process of returning to an earlier state, typically a worse one. A retrogression to 19th century attitudes.
retrospect	Contemplation of things past. A full retrospect of the battle.
retrospective	(of a statute or legal decision) taking effect from a date in the past. Retrospective pay awards.
return	A good rate of return. He returned a Diamond won by his partner who now played the 10 of Spades.
reversion	A property to which someone has the right of reversion. Parties buying and selling leases and reversions.
revert	A person who has converted to the Islamic faith. He reverted to his native language.
throwback	A reappearance of an earlier characteristic. A lot of his work is a throwback to the fifties.