TO HOLD IN

Definition: TO HOLD IN

TO HOLD IN

1. To restrain one's self; as, he wanted to laugh and could hardly hold in.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO HOLD IN

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Health

But if the child continues to hold in stool, the feces will accumulate and harden in the rectum. (references)

Tightening and relaxing the muscles that hold urine in the bladder and hold the bladder in its proper position, to improve a woman's ability to hold in her urine. (references)

Constipation can make a bowel movement painful, so the child may try to prevent having one. Clenching buttocks, rocking up and down on toes, and turning red in the face are signs of trying to hold in a bowel movement. (references)

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Expressions using "TO HOLD IN": To get or to hold In chancery ♦ To hold in hand ♦ To hold in play ♦ To hold in pledge. Additional references.

Chinese 

托 (to entrust, to hold in one's hand, to support in one's palm). (various references)

Hungarian

visszafog, uralkodik magán (control oneself, to bridle oneself, to command oneself, to hold one's hand, to keep one's countenance). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

提�'る (to hold in the hand, to take along). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くわえる (to add, to append, to hold in one's mouth, to include, to increase, to inflict, to sum up), さ�'る (to dismiss, to grant, to hang, to hold in the hand, to lower, to move back, to take along, to wear), ふくむ (duty, public service, to be charged or loaded with, to be dripping with, to be full of, to be suffused with, to bear in mind, to cherish, to comprise, to contain, to embrace, to harbor, to have, to hold, to hold in the mouth, to include, to understand), もやう (to co-operate, to hold in common, to share), � き�"む (to bring over a person to one's side, to hold in one's arms, to involve). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay oldhay inay

inhibeo. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: dhooti, lotion, oolith, tholoi.

-3 letters: dhoti, indol, litho, ootid, thiol, tondi, tondo.

-4 letters: dint, diol, doit, dolt, doth, hilt, hind, hint, hold, holt, hood, hoot, idol, into, lido, lino, lint, lion, loin, loon, loot, loth, loti, nodi, noil, nolo, olio, onto, thin, thio, toil, told, tool, toon.

-5 letters: din, dit, dol, don, dot, hid.

+3 letters: moonlighted.

+4 letters: anthologized, endothelioma, hemodilution.

+5 letters: dinitrophenol, endotheliomas, floodlighting, hemodilutions, hydroxylation, mitochondrial, technologized.

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