Hold and Leave behind

Hold

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

Leave behind is an antonym for hold.

Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback

Leave behind

Leave behind verb - Depart and not take along.

Hold is an antonym for leave behind in topics: give, forget.

Both terms in one sentence

  • Video Game / Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale It's also more directly averted in that adventurers can only hold the armor and weapons they use in a dungeon, it's you the shop owner that tails along behind them to hold all the loot they leave behind.
  • Literature / Star Wars: Kenobi A'Yark gives one such young warrior, with a shrapnel wound in his arm, a knife and some privacy, in Leave Behind a Pistol fashion.A'Yark: Whoever has two hands can hold a gaderffii.
Cite this Source
Leave behind and Hold. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 08, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hold/leave_behind
Hold & Leave behind. N.p., 2016. Web. 08 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/hold/leave_behind>.
Leave behind or Hold. 2016. Accessed August 08, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hold/leave_behind.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "hold" and "leave behind" have occurred on timeline