Held
Held adjective - Occupied or in the control of; often used in combination.
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Synonyms for Held
Struggled
Held and struggled are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Held" instead a verb "Struggled".
Nearby Words: struggle, struggling
Both words in one sentence
- One is held on the third episode of The Brian And Jill Show podcast, after Jill struggled the second episode with not belching on the air.
Source: Burping Contest - Hoshido and Nohr had always struggled with tense relations, but Hoshido's king being murdered brought things to a cold war, kept there only by each side having a royal of the other held hostage.
Source: Space Cold War - Hasamba constantly struggled with anyone that got in the way of Israel's foundation or was generally a prick, but held a particular (mutual) grudge for criminal kingpin Elimelech Zorkin, essentially Hasamba's Arch-Enemy.Well, as mentioned earlier, that was then and now is now.
Source: Series / Hasamba 3 G
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Struggled and Held. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 10, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/held/struggled
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