Hold and Threw

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

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Threw is an antonym for hold.

Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback

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Hold is an antonym for threw in propel something through the air topic.

And while they hold Man's World in contempt, rather than do anything to change the way it worked they just threw up more barriers between men and women.

Source: Western Animation / Wonder Woman (2009)
She has to hold herself back from chasing small moving things (she has at least once leapt from a moving vehicle when someone threw a ball).

Source: Petting Zoo People
He's so good that on one occasion where his sight was restored, it actually threw him off his game enough that Tim Drake's Robin could hold his own against him.

Source: Blind Weaponmaster

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