Hold and Live with

Hold

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

Live with is an antonym for hold.

Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback

Live with

Live with verb - Tolerate or accommodate oneself to.

Hold is an antonym for live with in topics: allow, manage, endure, permit an action.

Both terms in one sentence

  • Happily Adopted Huey, Dewey, and Louie seem rather content to live with their maternal uncle instead of their parents... despite the fact that he is very much a jerkass with a horrible temper who cannot hold down a job.
  • After getting a hold of both shares, Muriel - dreaming of even more money - marries another "millionaire" who turns out to be a con man who steals the money; she's forced to live with her mother in a small apartment and go back to work at her old job in a nail salon.
  • While in the first game he rescued a hooker from the Mafiya and she came to live with him and serve as his Morality Pet and his only hold on sanity, in the movie Jacket's Expy the Pig Butcher rapes and abducts the hooker from several teenagers, who eventually flees and calls the police on him.
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