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held (root: hold)
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held
aground, anchored, arrested, based on, besotted, bolstered, borne, braced, buttressed, by one, caught, chained, charmed, conserved, enchanted, enthralled, extra, fascinated, fast, fastened, fixated, fixed, founded on, free and clear, fresh, gripped, grounded, grounded on, guyed, held back, held in reserve, held out, high and dry, hung-up, hypnotized, impacted, in abeyance, in fee, in fee simple, in hand, in seisin, in stock, in store, inextricable, infatuated, jammed, kept, maintained, mesmerized, mint, monomaniac, monomaniacal, moored, new, obsessed, on hand, original, own, owned, packed, possessed, preoccupied, prepossessed, preserved, pristine, propped, put aside, put by, rapt, reserve, reserved, retained, saved, shored up, spare, spellbound, stayed, stored, stranded, stuck, stuck fast, supported, suspended, sustained, tethered, tied, to spare, transfixed, unapplied, unbeaten, unconsumed, unemployed, unexercised, unexpended, unhandled, unspent, untapped, untouched, untrodden, unused, unutilized, upheld, waived, wedged, withheldFor further exploring for "held" in Webster Dictionary Online