HOLD-DOWN Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

as in to limit

to set bounds or an upper limit for efforts to hold down taxes keep running up against the legislature's ingrained unwillingness to cut spending

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Recent Examples of hold down

Verb

Should the plane suddenly drop, the passenger seats can bear a force of sixteen g’s; the jump seats have harnesses to hold down the crew. —

Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026 People held down LaBeouf until officials arrived. —

Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026

Noun

Then, 12 hold-down bolts fired and freed the Delta IV Heavy for its climb into space with a top-secret payload for the US government's spy satellite agency. —

Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 9 Apr. 2024 If the hold-down clamp is not tightened properly, the battery could move, allowing the positive terminal to contact the clamp and short circuit, increasing the risk of a fire, the company said. —

CBS News, 1 Nov. 2023 See All Example Sentences for hold down

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hold down

Verb

At the time, several regional experts told me that top security and political figures inside the Iraqi Shiite militias and the Houthis were limiting their use of technology, using burner phones and spending minimal time online to prevent Israel from tracking them.

— Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
That mismatch has long limited how efficiently engineers can combine their output.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Mar. 2026