"hold back" meaning in Anglais

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Verb

IPA: \həʊld bæk\ Audio: En-au-hold back.ogg Forms: to hold back [infinitive], holds back [present, third-person, singular], held back [preterite], held back [participle, past], holding back [participle, present]
  1. Se retenir (s'arrêter avec effort). Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: fr-hold_back-en-verb-qydiTuk2 Categories (other): Verbes intransitifs en anglais
  2. Reculer (éviter de faire quelque chose qu’on exige ou qu’on désire de nous). Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: fr-hold_back-en-verb-cCxB5L7x Categories (other): Verbes intransitifs en anglais
  3. Retenir, stopper. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: fr-hold_back-en-verb-Fo86FCkB Categories (other): Exemples en anglais, Verbes transitifs en anglais
  4. Retenir de passer au niveau suivant, à l’étape suivante,… , particulièrement à l’école. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: fr-hold_back-en-verb-Zrssvgf~ Categories (other): Exemples en anglais, Verbes transitifs en anglais
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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          "text": "The dam can’t hold back that much water.",
          "translation": "Le barrage ne peut pas retenir autant d’eau."
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        "Retenir, stopper."
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