Hold Water

Definition: Hold Water

1. Resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.; "Her shoes won't hold up"; This theory won't hold water".

Specialty Definition: Hold Water

Domain	Definition
Literature	Hold Water (To). To bear close inspection; to endure a trial. A vessel that will hold water is safe and sound. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms within Context: Hold Water

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Confutation	Phrase: the argument falls to the ground, cadit quaestio, it does not hold water, " suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo"; his argument was demolished by new evidence.
Demonstration	Follow, follow of course, follow as a matter of course, follow necessarily; stand to reason; hold good, hold water.
Truth	Verb: be true; Adjective:, be the case; sand the test; have the true ring; hold good, hold true, hold water.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Photo Album: Hold Water

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Iden, New Mexico. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad work train for a section gang. The tank cars hold water. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Hold Water

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Avoid salt. Salty foods make you thirsty and make your body hold water. (references)
		The best preventive measure for residents living in areas infested with Aedes aegypti is to eliminate the places where the mosquito lays her eggs, primarily artificial containers that hold water. (references)
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Expressions: Hold Water

Modern Translation: Hold Water

Language		Translations for "hold water"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		obstát (get by, hold one's own, hold up). (various references)

Finnish		astia ei pidä vettä (the vessel does not hold water). (various references)

German		stich halten (be sound, be valid). (various references)

Hungarian		megállja a helyét (cope, to come through, to pull through). (various references)

Pig Latin		oldhay aterway

Romanian		nu sta în picioare (not to hold water), nu ţine apã (not to hold water), curge (course, drip, elapse, flow, fly, glide, hang, not to hold water, pour, rain, run, start, stream, suppurate). (various references)

Spanish		estar bien fundado. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Hold Water

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-l-o-r-t-w"
	-1 letter: leadwort.
	-2 letters: delator, leotard, loathed, loather, rathole, thrawed, towhead, trawled, whorled, whortle, worthed, wrathed.
	-3 letters: daleth, dartle, dearth, dehort, haloed, halted, halter, harlot, hatred, herald, holard, holder, howled, howler, howlet, lathed, lather, loader, loathe, orated, ordeal, redowa, reload, retold, thaler, thawed, thawer, tholed, thread, toward, trowed, trowel, warted, wealth, weldor, whaled, whaler, whored.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-l-o-r-t-w"
	+2 letters: leatherwood.
	+3 letters: leatherwoods, wholehearted.
	+4 letters: downheartedly.
	+5 letters: wholeheartedly.
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Expressions using "hold water": not to hold water ♦ To hold water. Additional references.
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