To hold: v.tr. (word coming from to hold, according to the Latin detinere).
The verb "to hold" has several meanings:
1. To keep, hold in one's possession (keep, possess; possessor).
Hold items in pledge.
Illegal possession of something, possession of a stolen object (concealment).
Abstract: to have, to possess.
Hold a secret.
Hold the power, the majority.
Quote from the French writer François Mauriac (1885-1970): “He had the means to shut their mouths”.
Hold the...
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