Held
Held adjective - Occupied or in the control of; often used in combination.
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- Frodo is widely held as either the savior of Middle-Earth, a weak puppet who needs the assistance of everyone around him to survive, or a little boy who always needs Sam to nurse him and carry him.
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Then there's his illegitimate son conceived with a Japanese nurse he held a short affair with.
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According to a nurse at the insane asylum she was being held, she hadn't "said a word in years".
Source: Franchise / Halloween
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