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held against

held against is the simple past and past participle of hold against.

Meaning of hold against

Verb

hold against (third-person singular simple present holds against, present participle holding against, simple past and past participle held against)

  1. To think less of (someone) for (something they have done).
    • He was awful to me when we were young, but I don't hold that against him. We were children then.

Questions about held against

What is held against the simple past and past participle of?
Held against is the simple past and past participle of hold against.

Words near held against in the dictionary

  1. held a gun to someone's head
  2. held a light
  3. held a mirror to
  4. held a mirror up to
  5. held a torch for
  6. held against
  7. held back
  8. held back on
  9. held ball
  10. held balls
  11. held by the button

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Adapted from Wiktionary: held against (page history and authors); hold against (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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