hold down
Verb
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Verb
hold down
- (idiomatic, transitive) To restrain; to check.
- Please hold the noise down.
- You hold him down while I search him.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To continue, to hold and to manage well.
- I held down that job for years.
- French: baisser, maintenir à terre
- German: niederhalten, unterdrucken
- Russian: уде́рживать
- Spanish: retener, sujetar, detener
- German: halten, sich halten in
- Russian: уде́рживать
- Spanish: seguir, conservar, mantenerse
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