Definition of Withhold

With`hold´
v. t.1.
1.To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.
2.To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition.
3.To keep; to maintain; to retain.
To withhold it the more easily in heart.
- Chaucer.


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