Word.ws English Dictionary

outholds

outholds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outhold.

Meaning of outhold

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.

Questions about outholds

What is outholds the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Outholds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outhold.

Words near outholds in the dictionary

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

Source and license

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

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “outholds.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/outholds. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.