hold down

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Verb

hold down

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To restrain; to check.

   Please hold the noise down.

   You hold him down while I search him.

2. (idiomatic, transitive) To continue, to hold and to manage well.

   I held down that job for years.

Translations

• French: baisser, maintenir à terre
• German: niederhalten, unterdrucken
• Russian: уде́рживать
• Spanish: retener, sujetar, detener

Translations

• German: halten, sich halten in
• Russian: уде́рживать
• Spanish: seguir, conservar, mantenerse

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