уде́рживать — meaning in English
uderzhivat
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English meaning
- coerce verb To force someone into doing something, using pressure, threats, or intimidation.
- deduct verb To subtract or take away an amount from a total.
- deter verb To discourage someone from doing something, usually through fear of a consequence.
- withhold verb To refuse to give, share, or reveal something.
Senses
уде́рживать is used for these senses in English:
- coerce (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
- deduct To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller or less by some amount.
- deter (transitive) To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage.
- hold back (idiomatic, intransitive) To act with reserve; to contain one's full measure or power.
- hold down (idiomatic, transitive) To continue, to hold and to manage well; to keep; maintain; support.
- withhold (transitive) To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.
coerce — full definition
- verb To force someone into doing something, using pressure, threats, or intimidation.
- verb In computing, to force a value to convert from one data type to another.