withhold
- Verb. (transitive) To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.
- Verb. (transitive) To keep (information, etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.
- Verb. (transitive) To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition.
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