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Synonyms and Antonyms of holding up
- held up mail delivery until we had a permanent address
- traffic was held up for miles by the accident
baffling, balking, blockading, blocking, bottlenecking, clogging, damming, detaining, hindering, holding, holding back, impeding, obstructing, snagging, stemming
concluding, cutting off, ending, terminating
calling, discontinuing, suspending
choking off, reining (in), repressing, squashing, squelching, stanching (or staunching), stunting, suppressing, turning back
- if lack of transportation is the only thing holding you up, I can give you a ride
clogging, cramping, embarrassing, encumbering, fettering, hampering, handcuffing, handicapping, hindering, hobbling, hog-tying, holding back, impeding, inhibiting, interfering (with), manacling, obstructing, shackling, short-circuiting, stymieing, trammeling (or trammelling), tying up (or tieing up)
balking, checking, constraining, curbing, reining, restraining
binding, chaining, haltering, leashing, tethering, tying (or tieing)
arresting, braking, delaying, retaining, retarding
barricading, blockading, blocking, roadblocking
choking, smothering, stifling, strangling, suffocating
baffling, foiling, frustrating, stumping, thwarting
derailing, disrupting, sabotaging
- the air conditioner held up this year, but it's not going to make it through another summer
- the storm's hurricane-force winds did not hold up once it hit the coast
- an argument that won't hold up in court
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