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Definition of 'hold off'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) hold off
resist and fight to a standoff
"Dallas had enough of a lead to hold the Broncos off"

2. (verb) wait, hold off, hold back
wait before acting
"the scientists held off announcing their results until they repeated the experiment"

Definition of 'hold off'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) hold off
to delay doing
We've decided to hold off visiting him until he feels stronger.

2. hold off
to resist an attack
She held off her attacker with the baseball bat.

Translation of 'hold off'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (of weather) to stay away I hope the rain holds off.
Afrikaans: wegbly	Arabic: يَبقى بَعيدا	Bulgarian: не идвам
Brazilian: não vir	Czech: nespustit, nepřijít	German: ausbleiben
Danish: ikke blive til noget	Greek: καθυστερώ (για καιρό)	Spanish: mantener(se) alejado
Estonian: tulemata jääma	Farsi: تأخير كردن	Finnish: pysyä poissa
French: (se) maintainir	Hebrew: לְהִתמַהמֵהָ	Hindi: दूर रहना
Croatian: ostati stalan (vrijeme)	Hungarian: elmarad	Indonesian: menjauh
Icelandic: halda sigí fjarlægð	Italian: (non cadere più)	Japanese: 降らない
Korean: 내릴 것 같지 않다	Lithuanian: neužeiti	Latvian: (par laiku) nesākties
Malay: berhenti	Dutch: wegblijven	Norwegian: ikke komme, holde seg vek
Polish: oddalić się, przejść boki	Persian: تأخير كردن	Pashto: وروسته والی کول
Portuguese: não vir	Romanian: a nuîncepe	Russian: не приходить
Slovak: nespustiť	Slovenian: ne priti	Serbian: odložiti
Swedish: hålla upp	Thai: ยังอยู่ห่างไกล	Turkish: durmak, kesilmek
Taiwanese: (壞天氣)不會發生	Ukrainian: затримуватися	Urdu: کسی خاص قسم کے موسم کا تھ
Vietnamese: ngừng lại	Chinese: 拖延，耽搁
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