Hold and Transferring

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

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Transferring is an antonym for hold.

Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback

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Hold is an antonym for transferring in pass possession to topic.

Nearby Words: transfer, transferred

So Cain lets the captain hold a tribunal (the defendants of which are found guilty) and sentences them to "death" by transferring them to a penal legion to die in battle.

Source: Literature / Ciaphas Cain
They're found out when somebody notices that throughout their meal they hold the fork in the left hand and the knife in the right instead of cutting off a piece of meat then transferring the fork to the right hand to lift the food to their mouth.

Source: Out-of-Character Alert

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