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withheld |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Withhold \With*hold"\, v. t. [imp. {Withheld}; p. p. {Withheld}, Obs. or Archaic {Withholden}; p. pr & vb n. {Withholding}.] [With again against, back + hold.] 1. To hold back to restrain; to keep from action Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him --Spenser. 2. To retain; to keep back not to grant; as to withhold assent to a proposition. Forbid who will none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good. --Milton. 3. To keep to maintain; to retain. [Obs.] To withhold it the more easily in heart. --Chaucer.
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