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outhold

outhold verb: to hold out; extend.

Verb

outhold (third-person singular simple present outholds, present participle outholding, simple past outheld, past participle outheld or (obsolete) outholden)

  1. (UK, dialectal) To hold out; extend.
  2. (UK, dialectal) To hold out, endure; resist, withstand; keep out by force, exclude.
  3. To hold better than someone or something else.
    • This new tack outholds the older one.
  4. To hold longer than another player.

outhold meaning in Bengali

outhold in Bengali

বাইরের দিকে ধরে রাখা, প্রসারিত করা, টিঁকে থাকা, সহ্য করা, প্রতিরোধ করা, মোকাবিলা করা

Forms of outhold

third-person singular presentoutholds
present participleoutholding
pastoutheld
past participleoutheld
past participle (obsolete)outholden

Origin of outhold

From Middle English outholden, equivalent to out- + hold. Cognate with Scots outhald (“to outhold”).

Questions about outhold

What does outhold mean?
Outhold means to hold out; extend.
What is outhold in Bengali?
Outhold in Bengali is বাইরের দিকে ধরে রাখা, প্রসারিত করা, টিঁকে থাকা. See Outhold meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is outhold?
Outhold is a verb.
What is the past tense of outhold?
The past tense of outhold is outheld.

Words near outhold in the dictionary

  1. outhisses
  2. outhissing
  3. outhit
  4. outhits
  5. outhitting
  6. outhold
  7. outholding
  8. outholds
  9. outhole
  10. outholes
  11. outhomer

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: outhold (page history and authors); outhold (Bengali 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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