overhold
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act or process of holding over.
Example Sentences
- "if he overhold his price so much"
- "That is your opinion: you state here that you were induced to overhold the land […]"
- "Overholding clauses serve the purpose of contractually regulating the terms and conditions of an overhold."
Etymology
From Middle English overholden, from Old English oferhealdan (“to overcome, overtake, hold over, delay to do, neglect”), from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”) + *haldaną (“to hold”), equivalent to over- + hold. Cognate with Dutch overhouden (“to hang on, hold over, save”), German überhalten (“to hold on to, keep”), Danish overholde (“to observe”).
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Inflected Forms
overholds (present, singular)
overholding (participle, present)
overheld (past)
overheld (participle, past)
overholden (participle, past)
overholds (plural)