Hold and Live

Hold

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

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Live and hold are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Live" instead a verb "Hold".

Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback

Live verb - To have a home.

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Hold and live are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hold" instead a verb "Live".

Nearby Words: living, lived

fire	hold fire	live fire
power	hold power	live power
body	hold body	live body
place	hold place	live place
Other words: number, time, way, world, door, times, underwater, jobs.

While the presence of the ruins is explained in-story (they're the old castle, abandoned after the Solaris Incident ten years ago), they still don't make any sense as buildings that the royal family would live or hold court in.

Source: Video Game / Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
His comrade manages to hold him at bay and they come to the agreement that if Minmax can find just one normal thing about Kin he'll let her live.

Source: To Be Lawful or Good
The Drow generally hold this belief, thanks in part to a goddess who thinks Chronic Backstabbing Disorder is the only way to live.

Source: Virtue Is Weakness

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