"hold firm" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "holds firm",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "holding firm",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held firm",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held firm",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hold<,,held> firm"
      },
      "expansion": "hold firm (third-person singular simple present holds firm, present participle holding firm, simple past and past participle held firm)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998 January, David Foster Wallace, “The Depressed Person”, in Harpers Magazine, page 63:",
          "text": ".... the depressed person's emotional agony had so completely overwhelmed her... that whenever a member of her Support System finally said that she was dreadfully sorry but she absolutely had to get off the telephone, the primal instinct for sheer emotional survival now drove the depressed person to... beg shamelessly for two or even just one more minute of the friend's time and attention, and - if the \"supportive friend\" held firm and terminated the conversation - to spend now hardly any time listening dully to the dial tone....",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To keep to a conviction, practice, etc., unwaveringly."
      ],
      "id": "en-hold_firm-en-verb-4bFZzzPa",
      "info_templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": ":to<something>"
          },
          "expansion": "[with to ‘something’]",
          "extra_data": {
            "words": [
              "to",
              "‘something’"
            ]
          },
          "name": "+obj"
        }
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "keep to",
          "keep to"
        ],
        [
          "conviction",
          "conviction"
        ],
        [
          "practice",
          "practice"
        ],
        [
          "unwaveringly",
          "unwaveringly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To keep to a conviction, practice, etc., unwaveringly. [with to ‘something’]"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "hold tight"
        },
        {
          "word": "stand firm"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hold one's ground"
        },
        {
          "word": "stand one's ground"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hold firm"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "holds firm",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "holding firm",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held firm",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held firm",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hold<,,held> firm"
      },
      "expansion": "hold firm (third-person singular simple present holds firm, present participle holding firm, simple past and past participle held firm)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hold tight"
    },
    {
      "word": "stand firm"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998 January, David Foster Wallace, “The Depressed Person”, in Harpers Magazine, page 63:",
          "text": ".... the depressed person's emotional agony had so completely overwhelmed her... that whenever a member of her Support System finally said that she was dreadfully sorry but she absolutely had to get off the telephone, the primal instinct for sheer emotional survival now drove the depressed person to... beg shamelessly for two or even just one more minute of the friend's time and attention, and - if the \"supportive friend\" held firm and terminated the conversation - to spend now hardly any time listening dully to the dial tone....",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To keep to a conviction, practice, etc., unwaveringly."
      ],
      "info_templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": ":to<something>"
          },
          "expansion": "[with to ‘something’]",
          "extra_data": {
            "words": [
              "to",
              "‘something’"
            ]
          },
          "name": "+obj"
        }
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "keep to",
          "keep to"
        ],
        [
          "conviction",
          "conviction"
        ],
        [
          "practice",
          "practice"
        ],
        [
          "unwaveringly",
          "unwaveringly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To keep to a conviction, practice, etc., unwaveringly. [with to ‘something’]"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hold one's ground"
        },
        {
          "word": "stand one's ground"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hold firm"
}