Hold and Pour

Hold

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

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

Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback

Pour

Pour verb - To cause to flow in a stream.

Hold and pour are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hold" instead a verb "Pour".

Nearby Words: poured, pouring

Mutual synonyms

Common collocations

fire hold fire pour fire
power hold power pour power
amount hold amount pour amount
arms hold arms pour arms

Both words in one sentence

  • Mindlink Mates: Part of a Faerie marriage ceremony is to hold hands and pour a magic potion over them, which gives the couple a temporary ability to read each other's minds.
  • He says that, like every other TV-watching man, he knows that you hold a tampon in your fist and pour dark blue liquid on it (Anton's reply was cut out from the English translation).
  • Then they would pour vinegar into it and hold the non- or ex-emperor's face over it until their corneas were scarred over by the vinegar vapor.
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