Hold and Upset

Opposite meaning words

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

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Upset is an antonym for hold.

Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback

Upset verb - To trouble the mind of; to make uneasy.

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Hold is an antonym for upset in topics: disorder, bother, defeat.

Nearby Word: upsetting

emotional	emotional hold	emotional upset
close	close hold	close upset
good	good hold	good upset
looking	looking hold	looking upset
Other adjectives: better, complete, original, massive, large, huge, little, famous, former, bigger, biggest.

A military man upset at a Jerk Pacifist mocking his dead son employs a sleeper hold blood choke.

Source: Choke Holds
Lampshade Hanging: Terry becomes upset that the new Catwoman doesn't want to flirt with him like the original Batman and Catwoman did and insists that they should do so just to hold up the tradition.

Source: Comicbook / Batman Beyond
The father, her estranged husband, seems to not hold it against her or be upset, merely speculative as to how things would have been different if she had kept it.

Source: Good Girls Avoid Abortion

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