Given and Hold

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Given noun - Something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning.

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Hold is a synonym for given. In some cases you can use "Hold" instead a verb "Given".

Nearby Word: give

Hold verb - To have or keep in one's hands.

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Given is a synonym for hold. Sometimes you can replace term "Given" with "Hold", this verbs are similar.

Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback

old	old given	old hold
good	good given	good hold
best	best given	best hold
complete	complete given	complete hold
Other adjectives: original, true, exclusive, powerful, actual, entire, large, huge, little, main, interesting, last.

Usagi from Sailor Moon, being a 14-year-old girl, can't hold liquor and Hilarity Ensues when she is given a glass.

Source: Can't Hold His Liquor
Even given that it's the game's Infinity+1 Sword (albeit a remarkably easy to get hold of one), getting a hold of it makes the game insultingly easy.

Source: Game Breaker / Castlevania
If on the next day you talk to Mari while you still have the bag, you are given two options: Give her the bag or hold on to it.

Source: But Thou Must!

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