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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

  1. verb To force someone into doing something, using pressure, threats, or intimidation.
  2. verb In computing, to force a value to convert from one data type to another.

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