HOLD UP


Meaning of HOLD UP in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ verb ]

Date: 1851

transitive verb

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 — Times Literary Supplement

intransitive verb

: to continue in the same condition without failing or losing effectiveness or force

she's holding up under the strain

music that holds up twenty years later

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.