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noun
Something, as land and assets, legally possessed.
Synonyms: property, Often used in plural: estate, possession, retention, keeping, belongings
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verb
Drink alcohol without showing ill effects
Synonyms: supporting, upholding, carrying, underpinning, shouldering, staying, locking, sustaining, propping, buttressing, bracing, bearing
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verb
To keep at one's disposal
Synonyms: owning, possessing, retaining, keeping
Antonyms: dropping, releasing
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verb
To be valid
Synonyms: obtaining, operating, applying, washing, enduring, continuing, prevailing, existing
Antonyms: expiring, stopping
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verb
Organize or be responsible for
Synonyms: staging, concurring, clinging, making, giving, attaching, agreeing, throwing
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verb
To view in a certain way
Synonyms: thinking, sensing, feeling, believing
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verb
Declare to be
Synonyms: judging, thinking, deeming, adjudging, figuring, averring, opining, believing, considering, regarding, declaring
Antonyms: forsaking, abandoning, disbelieving
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verb
Keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g.,
Synonyms: keeping, clenching, clinching, catching, clasping, retaining, maintaining, containing, checking, moderating, possessing, squeezing, withholding, sustaining, restraining, suppressing, supporting, steadying, staying, spellbinding, riveting, taking, remaining, uniting, detaining, pulling, tying, preserving, curbing, postponing, embracing, pausing, owning, occupying, enjoying, mesmerizing, carrying, fondling, interesting, influencing, handling, hooking, clutching, harboring, guarding, hugging, gripping, securing, functioning, pressing, filling, feeling, entertaining, controlling, grasping, defending, commanding, confining, continuing, considering, enclosing, clinging, bracing, binding, beholding, bearing, arresting, boasting, adhering
Antonyms: releasing
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verb
To put into words positively and with conviction
Synonyms: stating, saying, maintaining, declaring, contending, claiming, avowing, avouching, averring, asseverating, asserting, arguing, alleging, affirming
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verb
Contain or hold; have within
Synonyms: containing, bearing, accommodating, carrying
Antonyms: cancelling
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verb
To close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement
Synonyms: restraining, confining, keeping, inhibiting, curbing, constraining, checking, bridling, braking, bitting
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verb
Secure and keep for possible future use or application
Synonyms: possessing, retaining, guarding, defending, enjoying
Antonyms: releasing, losing
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verb
Maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
Synonyms: reserving, booking, nursing, withholding, retaining, entertaining, keeping, harboring
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verb
Resist or confront with resistance
Synonyms: detaining, persevering, withstanding, defying, resisting
Antonyms: halting, ceasing, deserting, quitting, stopping
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verb
Have room for; hold without crowding
Synonyms: containing, taking, admitting, accommodating
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verb
Cause to stop
Synonyms: grabbing, obligating, transfixing, spellbinding, riveting, mesmerizing, binding, arresting, gripping, fascinating, enthralling, halting, obliging
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verb
To put one's arms around affectionately
Synonyms: clipping, clinching, squeezing, pressing, hugging, enfolding, embracing, clasping
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verb
Have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
Synonyms: bearing
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verb
To be capable of holding:
Synonyms: containing
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adjective
Synonyms: impeding, closing