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hold firm

hold firm verb: to keep to a conviction, practice, etc., unwaveringly.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To keep to a conviction, practice, etc., unwaveringly.
    • .... the depressed person's emotional agony had so completely overwhelmed her... that whenever a member of her Support System finally said that she was dreadfully sorry but she absolutely had to get off the telephone, the primal instinct for sheer emotional survival now drove the depressed person...1998 January, David Foster Wallace, “The Depressed Person”, in Harpers Magazine, page 63

hold firm meaning in Kannada

hold firm in Kannada

ನೆಲೆವಿಡಿ, ನೆಲೆವಡಿಸು

Synonyms of hold firm

All synonyms of hold firm

Forms of hold firm

third-person singular presentholds firm
present participleholding firm
past participleheld firm
pastheld firm

Questions about hold firm

What does hold firm mean?
Hold firm means to keep to a conviction, practice, etc., unwaveringly.
What is hold firm in Kannada?
Hold firm in Kannada is ನೆಲೆವಿಡಿ, ನೆಲೆವಡಿಸು. See Hold firm meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is hold firm?
Hold firm is a verb.
What is the past tense of hold firm?
The past tense of hold firm is held firm.

Words near hold firm in the dictionary

  1. hold dear
  2. hold down
  3. hold down the fort
  4. hold fast
  5. hold fire
  6. hold firm
  7. hold for ransom
  8. hold forth
  9. hold good
  10. hold hands
  11. hold hard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hold firm (page history and authors); hold firm (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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