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onthouden — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • abstain verb To deliberately not take part in something, especially eating, drinking, or voting.
  • carry verb To hold something and move it from one place to another.
  • refrain verb To stop oneself from doing something; to hold back.
  • remember verb To bring something back to mind from memory.
  • withhold verb To refuse to give, share, or reveal something.

Senses

onthouden is used for these senses in English:

  • abstain (intransitive) Refrain from (something or doing something); keep from doing, especially an indulgence. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
  • bear in mind (transitive, idiomatic) To hold (something) in the memory; to remember; also, to be mindful of or pay attention to (something); to consider; to note.
  • carry (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
  • memorization The act of committing something to memory or memorizing.
  • refrain (intransitive, with preposition "from") To stop oneself from some action or interference; to abstain; to eschew [from 15th c.]
  • remember To memorize; to put something into memory.
  • withhold (intransitive) To stay back, to refrain.

carry — full definition

  1. verb To hold something and move it from one place to another.
  2. verb To have something on your person, such as a weapon, illness, or item.
  3. verb To be responsible for a large share of a team's success.
  4. verb To be pregnant with (a child).
  5. verb In arithmetic, to transfer a surplus digit to the next column when adding.

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