hold still for

1. 1.

   tolerate or bear

   “I won't stand for this kind of behavior!”

   Synonymsstand for

   Broaderdigest

Questions about hold still for

What does hold still for mean?

hold still for means "tolerate or bear".

What is another word for hold still for?

Close synonyms include stand for. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hold still for a common word?

hold still for is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.