withhold
Pronunciation: [wið'hәuld]
Average Rank: 16609
Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICTvt. 使停止, 扣留, 保留, 拒给 vi. 克制, 忍住
Detailed Explanations:
- v. hold back; refuse to hand over or share
- v. retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating:
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Difficulty:
INTERMEDIATE
Exam Tags:
cet6
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gre
Word Forms:
Past Participle:
withheld
Present Participle:
withholding
Past:
withheld
3rd Person:
withholds
Word Frequency Rankings
Project Gutenberg
#9828Classical and literary usage
Percentile: 1.7%
(Top 1.7% most frequent)
Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus