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hold together

hold together verb: to cause to stay together.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To cause to stay together.
    • Porphire & alle hise heolden ham togederes.a. 1225, The Legend of St Katherine, l. 2268
    • ...the sacred band
      That holds mankind together...1785, William Cowper, Task, ll. 687 f
  2. (figuratively, idiomatic) Synonym of hold it together: to cope with adversity.
  3. (intransitive) To stay together.
    • ...That thai schuld frely fond,
      To hold togider at eueri nede...c. 1330, Amis and Amiloun, ll. 151 f
    • There was hope that the ship would hold together.1861, Temple Bar, number 3, page 509

hold together meaning in Bengali and Sanskrit

hold together in Bengali

একত্রে থাকতে সাহায্য করা, বিপত্তি মোকাবিলা করা, একত্রে থাকা

hold together in Sanskrit

to hold together, check, control
संयुज् saṃyuj

Synonyms of hold together

Forms of hold together

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

Words formed from hold together

Questions about hold together

What does hold together mean?
Hold together means to cause to stay together.
What is hold together in Bengali?
Hold together in Bengali is একত্রে থাকতে সাহায্য করা, বিপত্তি মোকাবিলা করা, একত্রে থাকা. See Hold together meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is hold together?
Hold together is a verb.
What is the past tense of hold together?
The past tense of hold together is held together.

Words near hold together in the dictionary

  1. hold time
  2. hold times
  3. hold to
  4. hold to account
  5. hold to ransom
  6. hold together
  7. hold true
  8. hold up
  9. hold up a mirror to
  10. hold up as
  11. hold up one's end

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hold together (page history and authors); hold together (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); संयुज् (Sanskrit) (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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