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HOLD UP definition: 1. to remain strong or successful: 2. to delay someone or something: 3. to steal from someone…. Learn more.
Synonyms for HELD UP: postponed, delayed, deferred, laid over, held over, held off (on), put off, put over; Antonyms of HELD UP: worked (on), decided (upon), dealt (with), did, acted, wrought (on), kept (on), carried on.
to support somebody/something and stop them from falling. to delay or block the movement or progress of somebody/something. An accident is holding up traffic. The project was held up by various legal problems. related noun hold-up. to use or present somebody/something as an example. She's always holding up her children as models of good behaviour.
1. : to rob at gunpoint. 2. : delay, impede. 3. : to call attention to : single out. his work was held up to ridicule. hold this up as perfection The Times Literary Supplement (London)
A hold-up is a situation in which someone is threatened with a weapon in order to make them hand over money or valuables.
verb. rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat. synonyms: stick up. see more. verb. continue to live through hardship or adversity. synonyms: endure, go, hold out, last, live, live on, survive. be, live. have life, be alive.
hold up. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English hold up phrasal verb 1 hold something ↔ up to support something and prevent it from falling down The roof is held up by massive stone pillars. 2 hold somebody/something ↔ up to delay someone or something Sorry I’m late – I was held up at work.
To carry or support (the body or a bodily part) in a certain position: Can the baby hold herself up yet? Hold up your leg.
the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time.
To carry or support (the body or a bodily part) in a certain position: Can the baby hold herself up yet? Hold up your leg.
