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