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HOLD FIRM

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• HOLD FIRM (verb)
The verb HOLD FIRM has 1 sense:

1. refuse to abandon one's opinion or belief

Familiarity information: HOLD FIRM used as a verb is very rare.

• HOLD FIRM (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Refuse to abandon one's opinion or belief

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

hold firm; stand fast; stand pat; stand firm

Hypernyms (to "hold firm" is one way to...):

insist; take a firm stand (be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hold firm"):

hunker down (hold stubbornly to a position)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s on something

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(Corsican proverb)

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