Check
Hold
Hold verb - To keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression).
Usage example: hold your temper until you hear the whole story
Check is a synonym for hold in restrain topic. You can use "Check" instead the word "Hold" as a verb or a noun, if it concerns topics such as grasp, stop, restraint.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| good | good check | good hold |
| high | high check | high hold |
| full | full check | full hold |
| long | long check | long hold |
| Other adjectives: proper, single, simple, small, powerful, entire, massive, large, big, huge, little, psychological, final, last, bigger. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The boy has to check with his neighbour who lives many miles away, so he places Bart on hold and spends half the day visiting his neighbor and going back to answer the question.
Source: Ridiculously Long Phone Hold - Also after Farkle moves in with his mother, Minkus manages to hold his emotions in check until he drives down the highway and has to stop because his tears are making it difficult to drive.
Source: Fanfic / The Minkiad -
With no one able to hold Malloy in check, Eva pulls Professor Xavier from the past and into the present.
Source: Comic Book / Uncanny X-Men
Cite this Source
Hold and Check. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/check/hold
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Hold or Check. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/check/hold.
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