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Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To hold out; extend. UK, dialectal
2. 2
   To hold out, endure; resist, withstand; keep out by force, exclude. UK, dialectal
3. 3
   To hold better than someone or something else.

   "This new tack outholds the older one."

4. 4
   To hold longer than another player.

Example

More examples

"This new tack outholds the older one."

Etymology

From Middle English outholden, equivalent to out- + hold. Cognate with Scots outhald (“to outhold”).

Related phrases

hold out

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