Hold and Lend

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

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Lend is an antonym for hold.

Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback

Lend verb - To give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned.

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Hold is an antonym for lend in loan topic.

Nearby Words: Lent, lending, lender

power	hold power	lend power
significance	hold significance	lend significance
amount	hold amount	lend amount
hand	hold hand	lend hand
Other words: time, weight, head, sword, hands, weapons.

The Hero's confidant, always ready to lend a hand - but may hold the Hero back out of fear for his safety or fear for the loss of their close friendship.

Source: Master Support Characters
Most are actually rather tough and can hold their own in a fight if you lend a hand, but some (particularly the unarmed junkie and the Warden's son in the second game) have a tendency to die fairly quickly unless you're really good at protecting them.

Source: Video Game / The Suffering
The GMD was caught by surprise and the airfields were either captured or evacuated, but the NRA managed to hold out by virtue of American training and lend-lease equipment, which had by this time made good on the GMD's losses at Shanghai.

Source: Useful Notes / Second Sino-Japanese War

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