Mary had a moral dilemma: should she tell the police that the man in the CCTV footage of the hold-up, looked like Tom?
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Hold-up
Synonyms for "hold-up" (23 found)
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Noun(4 words)
Strong matches (7)
Related words (11)
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16 translations across 9 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- грабеж noun (a robbery at gunpoint)
Finnish
1 entries- ryöstö noun (a robbery at gunpoint)
French
1 entries- hold-up noun (a robbery at gunpoint)
German
4 entries- Aufhalten noun (a delay or wait)
- Stillstand noun (a delay or wait)
- Stockung noun (a delay or wait)
- Verzögerung noun (a delay or wait)
Italian
2 entries- autoreggente noun ((in the plural) Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders)
- rapina noun (a robbery at gunpoint)
Polish
1 entries- poślizg noun (a delay or wait)
Portuguese
1 entries- latrocínio noun (a robbery at gunpoint)
Russian
3 entries- грабёж noun (a robbery at gunpoint)
- налёт noun (a robbery at gunpoint)
- разбой noun (a robbery at gunpoint)
Swedish
1 entries- rån noun (a robbery at gunpoint)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
"What's the hold-up? Finish me off." "Soon. I'm... busy." "'Busy'?
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What's the hold-up?
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What is the hold-up?
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