Hold - Crossword Clue

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Hold.

6 letter answer(s) to hold

ALLEGE
  1. Claim or assert that someone has done something illegal or wrong, typically without proof that this is the case.
  2. report or maintain; "He alleged that he was the victim of a crime"; "He said it was too late to intervene in the war"; "The registrar says that I owe the school money"
ASSERT
  1. assert to be true; "The letter asserts a free society"
  2. insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized; "Women should assert themselves more!"
  3. state categorically
  4. to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent"
RETAIN
  1. allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"; "We kept the work going as long as we could"; "She retained her composure"; "this garment retains its shape even after many washings"
  2. hold back within; "This soil retains water"; "I retain this drug for a long time"; "the dam retains the water"
  3. keep in one's mind; "I cannot retain so much information"
  4. secure and keep for possible future use or application; "The landlord retained the security deposit"; "I reserve the right to disagree"

4 letter answer(s) to hold

AVER
  1. report or maintain; "He alleged that he was the victim of a crime"; "He said it was too late to intervene in the war"; "The registrar says that I owe the school money"
  2. to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent"
DEEM
  1. keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view; "take for granted"; "view as important"; "hold these truths to be self-evident"; "I hold him personally responsible"
GRIP
  1. a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place; "in Britain they call a bobby pin a grip"
  2. a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes; "he carried his small bag onto the plane with him"
  3. an intellectual hold or understanding; "a good grip on French history"; "they kept a firm grip on the two top priorities"; "he was in the grip of a powerful emotion"; "a terrible power had her in its grasp"
  4. hold fast or firmly; "He gripped the steering wheel"
  5. the act of grasping; "he released his clasp on my arm"; "he has a strong grip for an old man"; "she kept a firm hold on the railing"
  6. the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it; "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip"
  7. the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road)
  8. to grip or se

7 letter answer(s) to hold

BELIEVE
  1. accept as true; take to be true; "I believed his report"; "We didn't believe his stories from the War"; "She believes in spirits"
  2. be confident about something; "I believe that he will come back from the war"
  3. credit with veracity; "You cannot believe this man"; "Should we believe a publication like the National Enquirer?"
  4. follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer; "When you hear his sermons, you will be able to believe, too"
  5. Has faith
  6. judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"
POSSESS
  1. enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas; "What possessed you to buy this house?"; "A terrible rage possessed her"
  2. have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill; "he possesses great knowledge about the Middle East"
  3. have ownership or possession of; "He owns three houses in Florida"; "How many cars does she have?"
  4. Owns

5 letter answer(s) to hold

GRASP
  1. an intellectual hold or understanding; "a good grip on French history"; "they kept a firm grip on the two top priorities"; "he was in the grip of a powerful emotion"; "a terrible power had her in its grasp"
  2. get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
  3. hold firmly
  4. the act of grasping; "he released his clasp on my arm"; "he has a strong grip for an old man"; "she kept a firm hold on the railing"
  5. the limit of capability;
  6. To hold onto with the hand.
  7. understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something; "he has a good grasp of accounting practices"

8 letter answer(s) to hold

MAINTAIN
  1. have and exercise; "wield power and authority"
  2. keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"
  3. keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not keep up the building"; "children must be taught to conserve our national heritage"; "The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts"
  4. maintain by writing regular records; "keep a diary"; "maintain a record"; "keep notes"
  5. maintain for use and service; "I keep a car in the countryside"; "She keeps an apartment in Paris for her shopping trips"
  6. state categorically
  7. state or assert; "He maintained his innocence"
  8. stick to correctly or closely;
  9. supply with necessities and support; "She alone sustained her family"; "The money will sustain our good cause"; "There's little to earn a

3 letter answer(s) to hold

OWN
  1. belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive; "for your own use"; "do your own thing"; "she makes her own clothes"; "`ain' is Scottish"
  2. have ownership or possession of; "He owns three houses in Florida"; "How many cars does she have?"

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"The devil looks after hi
A lock-up, say
A rebellious vicar’s protest
A Room of One's ___
A sure thing, we hear, to declare
About to screen Oliver Stone film about President Grant
Accept as true
Accuse without established proof
Acknowledge
Admit feeling unhappy, lacking leadership
Admit individual
Admit working full of whiskey
Admit, with "up"
Affirm
Affirm positively
Allege
Allege as fact
American South determined to admit Republican state
Assert
Assert to be the case
Assert without proof
Assert without proof everyone European has good English
Assert, state
Aver
Avouch
Bag is right one for GP to possess
Bag of grouse mostly
Basic of golf instruction
Be born with
Be entitled
Be undefeated against, in
Believe
Belonging to a specified person
Buy, so to speak
Catch on to
Claim
Claim a minister's coming round
Claim actress arranged to have head of casting dismissed
Claim covered by local legend
Claim skill keeps ship to course, ultimately
Claim without proof
Clutch
Clutch - holdall
Complain having lost English holdall
Complain when Poe’s end’s lost literary raven
Complain when terminal's lost bag
Completely dominate
Comprehend
Confess immediately, though keeping name till later
Confess some shallow notions
Confess, with "up"
Confirm
Consider
Consider idle team being dismissed regularly
Consistently defeat, in s
Contend
Contend this would produce a drink when legless
Control
Control farm animal upset about start of rainstorm
Credit
Crush, sportswise
Declare
Declare a cleric briefly is uplifted
Declare a vicar has turned up
Declare answer extremely short
Declare as fact
Declare categorically
Declare firmly
Declare positively
Declare right to divide benefit?
Declare with certainty
Declare with confidence
Declare; maintain
Defend, as one's rights
Dominate, so to speak
Employ a couple of Ethiopians during bad weather
Express
Fascinate
Fathom
Fess (up to)
Fess (up)
Film crew member
Forcefully state
Fruit supplied with good understanding
Gain control over law-enforcing group, extremely sedulous
German almost ready to eat bag
Get
Get government file
Golf club part
Grasp
Grasp securely
Handle
Handlebar feature
Handshake
Hang on tight?
Haunt
Have
Have a title
Have attire for ball that doesn't start
Have control of
Have control of backup groups carrying spades
Have current name used later
Have faith
Have group sex, secretly at first
Have groups of lawmen succeeded?
Have in hand
Have in one's hands
Have legal support groups succeeded?
Have olives with nachos for starters
Have opening of present delayed
Have ownership of
Have Post Office review following disappearance of article
Have religious faith
Have some tomorrow night
Have son supporting law teams
Have sons got into groups of friends?
Have the deed to
Have the rights to
Have time away from built-up area
Have title to
Hesitate to ignore origin of Welfare State
Hire, as a lawyer
Hire, as counsel
His or her follower
Hold as
Hold – member of camera crew
Hold both ends of garter snake
Hold fast
Hold firmly
Hold great hope for those no longer here?
Hold on to
Hold one's ___
Hold the deed to
Hold the rights to
Hold tightly
Hold title to
Idiosyncratic member of parliament having name for Liberal
Isn’t involved in the most significant claim
Judge
Judge nude emperor's "clothes"
Judge to be
Judge wants old-fashioned award sent up
Keep
Keep back
Keep check, receiving thanks
Keep most important article in metal container
Keep TA in control
Keep up
Keep wife in cricket side
Lay hold of
Look after chief, popular with army
Maintain
Maintain agreement must have right to replace name
Maintain one putting money aside must suffer initial small loss
Maintain right to divide valuable item
Maintain right to invest in something of value
Make as a claim
Make judgments
Make known
Mean to conceal age and state
Mine ___
Mount Snowdon – oddly abandoned and private
Not forget
Not just hypothesize
Not lease, say
Of one's ___
Old lady cheers a couple of home guards for support
On one's own
Own
Own American writer’s story, primarily about steamship
Part of a tennis racket
Part of B.Y.O.B.
Part of golf instruction
Part of M.Y.O.B.
Pay off the mortgage on
Perceive
Personal
Personal evidence of discomfort when meeting Nationalist
Personal time wanted in residential area
Posit
Posit positively
Possess
Postulate
Predicate
Private heading away from urban area
Private parts essential to wow and awe one
Profess
Prove to be true when party's leader falls
Purchase a raven 20 18 kept
Put forward
Racket part
Rant beginning to end? Say it's true!
Reach
Regard
Regard as
Retain
Sad when daughter goes? That’s personal
Say confidently
Say for sure
Say it's so
Say positively
Say so
Say with conviction
See
Seize
Seize and hold firmly
Seize file with 'Government' on the front
Seize firmly
She's entitled to be taken to heart by soulful Knight?
Show astonishment about king’s understanding
Sits still at first, absorbing son's entrance
Solemnly declare
Stagehand
Stagehand stealing rupees is contrary swine!
State
State as a fact
State as fact
State body dismisses dishonourable man
State categorically
State confidently
State firmly
State firmly and positively
State of a reactionary priest
State of Virginia overturned election result originally
State to be the case
State to be true
State unequivocally
State with conviction
State's mean, cutting time
Study of population to show variable on plot
Subject of a golf lesson
Suitcase
Support chief facing endless disgrace
Swear
Swear to
Swear to avoid losing time
Take eagerly
Take firm hold of
Take hold
Take hold of
Tennis lesson subject
Thanks accepted by parent at home for support
Theater schlepper
Think
Tight hold
To have and to hold
Totally dominate
Traveling bag
Travelling bag
Trust in
Understand
Understand coarse feeling to be associated with Government
Understand gangster’s outside with poisonous snake
Understand regressive part of UKIP's arguments
Understanding
Understanding endless complaint
Understanding of golf pars when going round
What cleats increase

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