"hold someone's hand" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-hold someone's hand.ogg Forms: holds someone's hand [present, singular, third-person], holding someone's hand [participle, present], held someone's hand [participle, past], held someone's hand [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|hold<,,held> someone's hand}} hold someone's hand (third-person singular simple present holds someone's hand, present participle holding someone's hand, simple past and past participle held someone's hand)
  1. (literally) To grasp or hold a person's hand. Tags: literally
    Sense id: en-hold_someone's_hand-en-verb-qvV9qPH5
  2. (idiomatic) To guide somebody through the basics or assist with excessively small details. Tags: idiomatic Translations (idiomatic: guide somebody): води́ть за ручку (vodítʹ za ručku) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-hold_someone's_hand-en-verb-GJasjfv4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 79 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 28 72 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 23 77 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 87 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 20 80 Disambiguation of 'idiomatic: guide somebody': 4 96

Inflected forms

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