hold water

Questions about hold water

What is another word for hold water?

It depends which hold water you mean. In the sense “resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.”, the synonyms are stand up, hold up. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of hold water?

WordNet records no antonym for hold water. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for hold water come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of hold water

• Full entry for hold waterAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for hold waterWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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