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hold onto

hold onto verb: to manage to keep something.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To manage to keep something.
    • Desperate to hold onto power, Pervez Musharraf has discarded Pakistan's constitutional framework and declared a state of emergency.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hold, onto.

hold onto meaning in Gujarati

hold onto in Gujarati

to hold onto
વળગવું vaḷgavũ

Forms of hold onto

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

Questions about hold onto

What does hold onto mean?
Hold onto means to manage to keep something.
What is hold onto in Gujarati?
Hold onto in Gujarati is વળગવું (vaḷgavũ). See Hold onto meaning in Gujarati.
What part of speech is hold onto?
Hold onto is a verb.
What is the past tense of hold onto?
The past tense of hold onto is held onto.

Words near hold onto in the dictionary

  1. hold one's piece
  2. hold one's piss
  3. hold one's tongue
  4. hold one's water
  5. hold oneself together
  6. hold onto
  7. hold onto your hat
  8. hold out
  9. hold outs
  10. hold over
  11. hold over someone's head

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hold onto (page history and authors); વળગવું (Gujarati) (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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