• v.
    ⦿wait before acting
    lexical concept
  • the scientists held off announcing their results until they repeated the experiment

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:hold back
  2. enl:hold off
  3. enl:wait
wn:interlingual indexili:i34877

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelhold backhold offwait