withhold

Other forms of withhold

past tense or participle

withheld

present participle

withholding·

third person

withholds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about withhold

What does withhold mean?

withhold means "hold back; refuse to hand over or share". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in withhold?

withhold has 2 syllables: with-hold. The stress falls on "hold". In IPA it is /wɪθˈhoʊld/.

What is another word for withhold?

Close synonyms include keep back, deduct, recoup. 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 withhold a common word?

withhold is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with withhold?

13 words rhyme with withhold. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.