holding off

Synonyms

stay on overstay rain check

Antonyms

aeronautics traveling navigation travelling sailing transmitting
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Examples

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be. Kurt Vonnegut

It's a bad business. There is no firm front. We have separate strongpoints in which our units are holding off the attacks of superior enemy forces. Communications with them are weak. Kliment Voroshilov

Words in the phrase

holding off

Close letter words and terms

holding in respect holding midfielder holding note holding on to life holding out holding out on