Confronted and Held

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Held and confronted are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Held" instead a verb "Confronted".

Nearby Words: confrontation, confronting

Held adjective - Occupied or in the control of; often used in combination.

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Confronted and held are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Confronted" instead a verb "Held".

Then Shannon personally confronted Devlin, held him at gunpoint, and smugly (ha, ha!) confessed to the murders and the reasons for committing them.

Source: Smug Snake / Video Games
Not So Stoic: When confronted by the idea of the Dawn or Twilight Runes being held by an unworthy host.

Source: Characters / Suikoden V
In Outbound Flight, Jedi Lorana Jinzler is confronted, to her shock, by the brother she never knew, who told her angrily that their parents, who she also never knew, loved her for being a Jedi, loved her more than their other children, held her up as a shining example of what they should be.

Source: Parental Favoritism

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