HOLD IN Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

hold (in)

verb

Definition of hold (in)

as in to hide

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State officials are hiding public information like never before.

— Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2026
Or does the making of art simply help the artist to hide behind another layer of artifice?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of hide

Verb

Supervisors had questioned large loans to companies connected to the bank’s owners and transactions that appeared designed to conceal the extent of those relationships.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2026
The infestation there turns out to conceal something worse, old violence and village secrets resurface, and a figure known as the Rat-Man sets a bloodthirsty swarm loose, leaving Kayla fighting to survive.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of conceal

Verb

Thinly veiled advertising that purports to be a news source has a long history, said Patrick Warren, a professor at Clemson University's Media Forensics Hub.

— Huo Jingnan, NPR, 30 Oct. 2026
The forests are thick with spruce, their needles a deep, musty green veiled in shadows.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of veil

Verb

What’s masked as a culture war in Florida is actually a class war the billionaires designed to tune us out, but young people are ready to even the scales on Election Day.

— Cameron Driggers, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2026
Pedro gave me permission, with his effervescence and his sadness and his ability to mask his sadness, to go after the fairy tale.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of mask

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As light mist obscured the far-off Chicago skyline, only the faint sounds of metal cranes clanging and construction vehicles beeping in the distance broke up the quiet morning at Park 566 in South Shore.

— Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026
The result is enough glare remaining to obscure a planet, but Wang and colleagues developed a new approach to this problem.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of obscure

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