hold up
Verb
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subtypes:
- scaffold - provide with a scaffold for support
- block - support, secure, or raise with a block
- carry - bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of
- chock - support on chocks
- buoy, buoy up - keep afloat
- pole - support on poles
- bracket - support with brackets
- underpin - support from beneath
- prop, prop up, shore, shore up - support by placing against something solid or rigid
- truss - support structurally
- brace - support by bracing
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referred to in: crime, criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking - (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil actis a type of: rob - take something away by force or without the consent of the ownersubtypes: mug - rob at gunpoint or with the threat of violencesame as: stick up
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subtypes:
- hold up, hold water, stand up - resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.
- perennate - survive from season to season, of plants
- live out - live out one's life; live to the end
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is a type of: hold out, resist, stand firm, withstand - stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something
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is a type of: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive - continue to live and avoid dyingsame as: hold water, stand up
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