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withheld

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • //wɪθˈhɛld//
  • //wɪðˈhɛld//

That has been kept or held back from the possession or knowledge of another.

adjective

  1. 1

    That has been kept or held back from the possession or knowledge of another.

    His withheld hand stared down at my weakly outstretched one.

    The names originally withheld from the report, have been leaked.

    The former employee returned to demand his withheld check.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of withholdsimple past and past participle of withhold

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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).