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Hold out

verb

Thrust or extend out. Synonyms: exsert, extend, put out, stretch forth, stretch out. "Point a finger" , "Extend a hand" , "The bee exserted its sting"

Stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something. Synonyms: resist, stand firm, withstand. Antonym: surrender.

Last and be usable. Synonyms: endure, wear.

Wait uncompromisingly for something desirable.

Continue to live through hardship or adversity. Synonyms: endure, go, hold up, last, live, live on, survive. "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America" , "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents" , "How long can a person last without food and water?"

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"Hold out" Quotes from Famous Books

... Tapotte were fidgeting upon their chairs in respectful silence. Every now and then they exchanged glances of wonder and admiration. They were evidently dying to compare my august features with my portrait, but dared not take the liberty of rising. At length the lady's curiosity could hold out no longer. ...

— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards

... could only hold out my hand to my poor boy, and assure him I could not possibly blame him for this ...

— The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island • Johann David Wyss

... siege of Acre are well known. Although surrounded by a wall, flanked with strong towers, and having, besides, a broad-and deep ditch defended by works this little fortress did not appear likely to hold out against French valour and the skill of our corps of engineers and artillery; but the ease and rapidity with which Jaffa had been taken occasioned us to overlook in some degree the comparative strength of the two places, and the difference of their respective situations. ...

— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

... unison, the children fled screaming to the house. Mrs. Halford met them at the kitchen door white and worried. She had not dreamed they would hold out so long. ...

— Chicken Little Jane • Lily Munsell Ritchie

... surface, it proved to be a letter—a long letter full of cramped, close writing.—You have anticipated my story, Magdalen, before I can end it! You know as well as I do that the letter which my idle fingers found was the Secret Trust. Hold out your hand, my dear. I have got George's permission to show it to you, ...

— No Name • Wilkie Collins

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