What is another word for be held?
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Pronunciation:
[ biː hˈɛld], [ biː hˈɛld], [ b_iː h_ˈɛ_l_d]
Related words: ought to be held to, be obligated to, be expected to, be obliged to, be obligated by, be required to
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Synonyms for Be held:
adj.
• observed (adjective)- perceived,
- revealed,
- Inspected,
- detected,
- Watched,
- Espied,
- attended,
- ascertained,
- noticed,
- looked at,
- discovered,
- heard,
- Contemplated,
- Heeded,
- Scrutinized,
- Descried,
- Discerned,
- found,
- recognized,
- realized,
- noted,
- Examined,
- checked,
- Regarded,
- marked,
- Surveyed.
- optic,
- seeable,
- Viewed,
- viewable,
- observed,
- observable,
- perceptible,
- seen,
- Beheld,
- optical,
- ocular,
- Visional,
- discernible,
- visible,
- Imaged.
v.
• behold (verb) • contemplate (verb) • descry (verb) • discern (verb) • look (verb)- gaze.
- monitor,
- beam,
- lamp,
- recognize,
- look at,
- pick up on,
- get an eyeful of,
- eagle-eye,
- dig,
- keep one's eye on,
- pay attention to.
- hear,
- weigh,
- scope,
- appraise,
- unearth,
- understand,
- envision,
- ponder,
- investigate,
- peg,
- clock,
- follow,
- peek,
- get the drift,
- tumble,
- undergo,
- catch a glimpse of,
- glimpse,
- learn,
- glare,
- get the hang of,
- envisage,
- have,
- catch sight of,
- be apprised of,
- catch on,
- get,
- fathom,
- sustain,
- experience,
- sight,
- suffer,
- think.
Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words:- buzz off,
- tornado,
- blob,
- analyse,
- perspective,
- distinguish,
- bank bill,
- arrive,
- direction,
- guarantee,
- conform to,
- call for,
- delve,
- sentry,
- size up,
- placard,
- respectfulness,
- stick to,
- need,
- trace,
- gravel,
- center,
- carve up,
- permeate,
- tripper,
- view,
- defend,
- affirm,
- attach,
- seem,
- feel,
- public opinion poll,
- freestanding,
- demand,
- break through,
- telescope,
- mountain,
- thrust,
- manage,
- cognise,
- take stock,
- flash lamp,
- charm,
- bugger off,
- brand,
- break,
- set aside,
- common sense,
- gather in,
- bring in,
- lean,
- scrutinize,
- be a witness,
- examine,
- cro,
- agnise,
- realise,
- topnotch,
- count,
- attestant,
- anticipate,
- address,
- note of hand,
- generate,
- externalize,
- dos,
- mold,
- stark,
- push,
- prise,
- ride,
- make out,
- bring forth,
- mull,
- give birth,
- touch,
- eye,
- fling,
- bewitch,
- barb,
- articulate,
- stigmatize,
- go steady,
- dissever,
- spotter,
- occupy,
- bank,
- fix,
- aim,
- sequester,
- construe,
- flummox,
- attend,
- identify,
- bottom,
- chance on,
- assess,
- sentinel,
- figure of speech,
- exteriorize,
- rant,
- take aim,
- blot,
- strike off,
- issue,
- situation,
- auspicate,
- check out,
- fondness,
- gross,
- unwrap,
- cognize,
- feast eyes on,
- prospect,
- observance,
- excursionist,
- annotation,
- omit,
- press,
- regularise,
- foresee,
- monitoring device,
- live,
- see the light,
- babysit,
- cross out,
- beguile,
- poll,
- perfect,
- bonk,
- resume,
- look out over,
- forecast,
- soft touch,
- famous,
- looking at,
- gaudy,
- churchman,
- ray,
- check off,
- fag,
- chirrup,
- stop,
- inspired,
- materialize,
- icon,
- develop,
- gape,
- contemplate,
- get across,
- film,
- leave out,
- heap,
- sentiment,
- conflict,
- ikon,
- write out,
- baby-sit,
- disjoined,
- blank,
- materialise,
- dominate,
- mull over,
- dash,
- mystify,
- thole,
- depersonalize,
- focalise,
- hold on,
- lump,
- bill,
- catch,
- prolong,
- let,
- remark,
- flashy,
- muse,
- mark off,
- capture,
- keep abreast,
- fancy,
- matter,
- scrutinise,
- choose,
- tiptop,
- overleap,
- looker,
- godly,
- promise,
- actualise,
- frown,
- hearken,
- go,
- ascertain,
- diffuse,
- wish,
- speciate,
- bang,
- imaginativeness,
- correct,
- grab,
- beam of light,
- overhear,
- blink of an eye,
- quotation,
- get wise,
- run,
- view in mind's eye,
- peer,
- go to,
- verbalise,
- set eyes on,
- sheet,
- sail,
- pronounce,
- rowlock,
- emit,
- subject,
- speak up,
- pull in,
- furcate,
- quip,
- cerebrate,
- become,
- accompanied,
- keep an eye on,
- take on,
- effigy,
- conceptualise,
- mark,
- endure,
- cross,
- justice,
- jazz,
- shoot,
- musical note,
- beget,
- find out,
- nog,
- seize,
- cleft,
- tick off,
- dawn,
- be present,
- pass judgment,
- take note,
- break down,
- perceive,
- meretricious,
- irradiation,
- control,
- home run,
- bell ringer,
- have it off,
- informant,
- prefigure,
- invite,
- pipework,
- love,
- jibe,
- recognised,
- differentiate,
- perplex,
- wait,
- put up,
- enchant,
- preeminence,
- illustrious,
- mental image,
- claim,
- condition,
- suck up,
- signified,
- pit,
- subscribe to,
- order,
- horizon,
- wink,
- fall guy,
- say,
- line,
- assume,
- simulacrum,
- good deal,
- fanfare,
- announce,
- ken,
- pore,
- accredit,
- try,
- evaluate,
- brook,
- sound,
- wrecking bar,
- have intercourse,
- gestate,
- inspect,
- conduct,
- make up one's mind,
- bed,
- pronounced,
- creative thinker,
- concoct,
- call,
- sensation,
- do it,
- earmark,
- latch on,
- engender,
- drudge,
- prognosticate,
- stick out,
- thought,
- chance upon,
- fracture,
- bull's eye,
- evaluator,
- epitome,
- strike,
- meet,
- raft,
- thorough,
- puzzle out,
- province,
- gull,
- lineament,
- amaze,
- intend,
- chew over,
- guide,
- eagle eye,
- show,
- depersonalise,
- scissure,
- beware,
- befool,
- get by,
- retention,
- evident,
- take down,
- lookout,
- key,
- digging,
- denounce,
- work out,
- put one over,
- glower,
- begin,
- garish,
- feature of speech,
- stare at,
- flash bulb,
- agnize,
- fill out,
- shriek,
- payoff,
- head,
- chap,
- cracking,
- assure,
- retrieve,
- gauge,
- flashbulb,
- click,
- correction,
- jimmy,
- keep up,
- judgment,
- transmit,
- glow,
- let out,
- explore,
- jehovah,
- project,
- advert,
- contend,
- lord,
- sensed,
- consume,
- lie with,
- ground,
- appear,
- brassy,
- pry,
- investigation,
- subscribe,
- suck in,
- saint mark,
- start,
- proceeds,
- mind the store,
- determine,
- ostentate,
- commence,
- tawdry,
- get the picture,
- charter,
- equal,
- survey,
- let loose,
- uncover,
- checkered,
- providential,
- prize,
- shine,
- input,
- nourish,
- apprehension,
- go through,
- flaunt,
- facial expression,
- feeling,
- posit,
- necessitate,
- come home,
- deliver,
- expense,
- allow,
- chronicle,
- check into,
- rake,
- write off,
- oversee,
- see to it,
- signalise,
- enounce,
- disentangle,
- fall,
- be known as,
- paradigm,
- sleep with,
- good sense,
- plant,
- name,
- double,
- purview,
- wealthy person,
- foreshadow,
- radiate,
- focus,
- safeguard,
- compliments,
- limelight,
- infiltrate,
- ingest,
- canvas,
- obtain,
- grind,
- nation,
- suck,
- own,
- image,
- cherish,
- horn in,
- stupefy,
- goon,
- teach,
- department of state,
- crack up,
- tag,
- brilliance,
- receive,
- start out,
- bet,
- feel out,
- forestall,
- jurist,
- have a go at it,
- eyeball,
- travel along,
- fleck,
- decide,
- card,
- stomach,
- deference,
- imbue,
- hollow,
- debate,
- hump,
- happen upon,
- credit,
- speak,
- land,
- await,
- tip,
- maintain,
- twinkling,
- hark,
- look-alike,
- confirm,
- taking into custody,
- contain,
- centering,
- expression,
- discover,
- cogitate,
- tell,
- esteem,
- judge,
- excogitate,
- imbibe,
- federal reserve note,
- maculation,
- influence,
- slur,
- undercover agent,
- billet,
- labour,
- fuck,
- piping,
- audit,
- cheep,
- publicize,
- point out,
- jab,
- assort,
- daub,
- ace,
- convoke,
- get wind,
- unveil,
- state of matter,
- fill in,
- look for,
- tended to,
- sound out,
- give away,
- reconnoiter,
- look upon,
- range,
- account,
- sharpen,
- blemish,
- lot,
- witness,
- spill,
- phantasy,
- oarlock,
- ache,
- look to,
- abide by,
- enamour,
- severalise,
- collar,
- comply,
- acknowledge,
- settle,
- mother,
- godlike,
- point,
- lookout man,
- impound,
- comment,
- rubbernecker,
- crock up,
- tacky,
- canvass,
- super,
- organ pipe,
- come,
- infer,
- commonwealth,
- eyepiece,
- shot,
- come after,
- flashing,
- score,
- nurture,
- sentry go,
- pile,
- enamor,
- labor,
- haul,
- vista,
- sentience,
- aspect,
- run across,
- fascinate,
- allege,
- overtop,
- fill,
- deutsche mark,
- take care,
- bring out,
- come apart,
- attestator,
- specify,
- rivet,
- marker,
- tops,
- get a load of,
- match,
- public eye,
- put forward,
- pass,
- see through,
- calculate,
- discern,
- stylemark,
- mint,
- pick out,
- gimcrack,
- consummate,
- country,
- scar,
- recognise,
- smell out,
- looking,
- divulge,
- reckon,
- know apart,
- nail,
- travail,
- oculus,
- stigma,
- patch,
- make distinction,
- call up,
- measure,
- fall apart,
- accepted,
- lubber,
- regard as,
- cathode-ray oscilloscope,
- take hold of,
- glance,
- hit the books,
- palpate,
- accompany,
- send,
- know as,
- shaft,
- test,
- winkle,
- berth,
- drive,
- attend to,
- jiffy,
- mug,
- illusion,
- lummox,
- return,
- snoop,
- give ear,
- get hold of,
- pin,
- animadvert,
- appropriate,
- command,
- discriminate,
- pure,
- bode,
- divergence,
- remove,
- creator,
- field,
- discernable,
- flavour,
- ecclesiastic,
- moot,
- advertize,
- pay heed,
- tatty,
- peck,
- institute,
- broadcast,
- smirch,
- dig up,
- disencumber,
- sympathize,
- search,
- crack,
- ride herd on,
- whirl around,
- model,
- leg,
- clear,
- moil,
- mass,
- split,
- quite a little,
- have a picture of,
- pass comment,
- secure,
- recollect,
- elysian,
- batch,
- screw,
- make,
- enunciate,
- accomplished,
- put on,
- sport,
- riddle,
- take to,
- face,
- focussing,
- pretermit,
- pay attention,
- lour,
- sleuth,
- look on,
- rave,
- detectable,
- keep,
- guardianship,
- comprehend,
- flavor,
- recall,
- split second,
- go over,
- find,
- harken,
- split up,
- direct,
- get a line,
- espy,
- single out,
- fantasy,
- appreciation,
- range of a function,
- constitute,
- mother wit,
- expose,
- realised,
- tobacco pipe,
- look into,
- crevice,
- intellect,
- stand,
- bailiwick,
- mention,
- make love,
- unadulterated,
- put down,
- talent scout,
- take up,
- spirit,
- train,
- play along,
- adopt,
- compeer,
- hold,
- catch up with,
- be given,
- exact,
- feature,
- entrance,
- adjudge,
- set down,
- bear,
- yield,
- reconnoitre,
- translate,
- guard duty,
- fall into place,
- sort,
- assimilate,
- opinion poll,
- fool,
- label,
- believe,
- enquire,
- think of,
- front,
- behold,
- renowned,
- reminder,
- select,
- pervade,
- imagine,
- involve,
- opinion,
- foretell,
- contract,
- go for,
- toil,
- presage,
- publicise,
- ward,
- topographic point,
- fork,
- see,
- reserve,
- vision,
- neglect,
- pose,
- trademark,
- mickle,
- blink,
- notice,
- plenty,
- proctor,
- draw,
- digest,
- boast,
- short letter,
- sink in,
- ambit,
- require,
- captivate,
- reprint,
- flare,
- becharm,
- reverberate,
- sentry duty,
- be,
- nock,
- baffle,
- know,
- listen,
- double-dyed,
- disunite,
- run down,
- repute,
- monitor lizard,
- interpret,
- estimate,
- guess,
- poke into,
- sleep together,
- speckle,
- notation,
- balance beam,
- flashgun,
- gawp,
- fthm,
- prototype,
- nous,
- bear in mind,
- crisscross,
- subject area,
- forebode,
- maker,
- mouth off,
- sit around,
- electron beam,
- stain,
- almighty,
- take over,
- clutch,
- birth,
- put one across,
- guard,
- read,
- librate,
- suppose,
- pot,
- tone,
- cross-file,
- spot,
- canvas tent,
- tolerate,
- middle,
- banker's bill,
- thoroughgoing,
- crumble,
- print,
- admonisher,
- usurp,
- utter,
- aver,
- augur,
- reference,
- newsflash,
- hold dear,
- cause,
- top-notch,
- give attention,
- slew,
- nonplus,
- cogitation,
- treat,
- persona,
- flock,
- prehend,
- stack,
- pock,
- sound off,
- sign,
- specialize,
- note,
- precaution,
- divide,
- eff,
- deliberate,
- time,
- notable,
- empathise,
- cheap,
- focalize,
- acquire,
- attain,
- secernate,
- sally,
- dream up,
- look out on,
- stab,
- watch,
- deal,
- pay back,
- rent,
- sire,
- hire,
- carry,
- sit down,
- reflect,
- vigil,
- heartbeat,
- come upon,
- value,
- greenback,
- safety device,
- cope,
- eminence,
- externalise,
- distinction,
- peg down,
- sightseer,
- sit,
- trice,
- stress,
- light beam,
- be intimate,
- father,
- ophthalmic,
- ogle,
- cite,
- smear,
- pipe up,
- talk,
- deviation,
- sketch,
- essay,
- promote,
- offprint,
- break up,
- prod,
- crumple,
- grade,
- smell,
- reform,
- regard,
- get it,
- radio beam,
- post,
- conquer,
- possess,
- field of study,
- vex,
- puzzle,
- withdraw,
- give,
- state department,
- united states department of state,
- dig out,
- cut,
- class,
- give heed to,
- pipe,
- soak up,
- approximate,
- study,
- intrude,
- focal point,
- subject field,
- cut into,
- set up,
- describe,
- tube,
- specialise,
- difference of opinion,
- posture,
- smudge,
- counter,
- jabber,
- honorable mention,
- induce,
- chump,
- scram,
- hang,
- cross off,
- mind,
- dupe,
- show off,
- sympathise,
- thinker,
- tactile property,
- state,
- ruminate,
- eyeshot,
- cheque,
- bit,
- foreknow,
- descry,
- govern,
- scout,
- wait on,
- use up,
- memorize,
- superintend,
- gibe,
- stimulate,
- betoken,
- lead,
- catch out,
- fetch,
- stick with,
- sort out,
- date,
- new york minute,
- neck,
- horse sense,
- get down,
- set about,
- yaw,
- think up,
- interpenetrate,
- feature article,
- analyze,
- separate,
- make do,
- strike out,
- figure,
- dart,
- check over,
- tidy sum,
- light upon,
- expect,
- penetrate,
- scud,
- attentiveness,
- ticker,
- fissure,
- respect,
- stag,
- prove,
- visual,
- give tongue to,
- written report,
- scrape,
- news bulletin,
- sucker,
- take a gander,
- empathize,
- staring,
- belongings,
- look across,
- verbalize,
- severalize,
- lease,
- hitch,
- gap,
- take after,
- enjoin,
- set,
- cop,
- imagination,
- rubberneck,
- look out,
- background,
- sensory faculty,
- visit,
- hold up,
- actualize,
- previse,
- beat,
- admit,
- chequered,
- honor,
- gain,
- watch out,
- orb,
- pegleg,
- ensure,
- pip,
- lever,
- get laid,
- part,
- launch,
- work,
- get through,
- bring up,
- shape,
- confiscate,
- stigmatise,
- depend,
- great deal,
- greet,
- sentiency,
- mean,
- cleric,
- ray of light,
- visual sensation,
- objectify,
- discrepate,
- ask,
- nab,
- perforate,
- focusing,
- arrest,
- lay eyes on,
- clod,
- audited account,
- arrant,
- limit,
- nail down,
- rule,
- grapple,
- obedience,
- lose,
- discipline,
- registry,
- untangle,
- rely,
- call back,
- absorb,
- realize,
- swank,
- corroborate,
- posting,
- first-rate,
- assist,
- trashy,
- psyche,
- surveil,
- gospel according to mark,
- key out,
- earn,
- honour,
- remember,
- yawn,
- position,
- affect,
- sop up,
- stumblebum,
- spotlight,
- acknowledgment,
- roll in the hay,
- hallmark,
- complete,
- form mental picture of,
- admire,
- hurt,
- history,
- fare,
- swear,
- feature film,
- safekeeping,
- heed,
- hatch,
- idea,
- submit,
- dumbfound,
- mess,
- heart,
- convey,
- treasure,
- have got,
- seat,
- get word,
- whirl,
- visualise,
- persuasion,
- divine,
- spout,
- observation,
- pry bar,
- define,
- completed,
- express,
- insure,
- difference,
- valuate,
- poster,
- lick,
- trance,
- larn,
- declare,
- run into,
- sense,
- commemorate,
- blaze,
- postulate,
- scoot,
- ideate,
- substantiate,
- have sex,
- adjudicate,
- overtake,
- oscilloscope,
- review,
- chirp,
- slang,
- happen,
- record,
- witnesser,
- let on,
- spate,
- scene,
- slam,
- brain,
- portend,
- air,
- bring,
- peruse,
- take to be,
- deutschmark,
- glance over,
- ramify,
- visualize,
- punctuate,
- concentrate,
- marking,
- abide,
- incur,
- godhead,
- get under one's skin,
- be on the scene,
- stare,
- consider,
- pierce,
- ostentation,
- espouse,
- bank note,
- detect,
- peep,
- citation,
- patsy,
- wad,
- tick,
- finger,
- president pierce,
- celebrate,
- speak out,
- twig,
- speculate,
- square off,
- remainder,
- government note,
- loud,
- story,
- a-one,
- conceive of,
- goggle,
- setting,
- check up on,
- meditate,
- supervise,
- cash register,
- nidus,
- shaft of light,
- tholepin,
- observe,
- stick,
- watch over,
- bewilder,
- produce,
- branch,
- base,
- shrill,
- pay off,
- gimmick,
- grow,
- come across,
- snap,
- varan,
- archeological site,
- twinkle,
- trip up,
- excavate,
- support,
- rabbit on,
- target,
- collapse,
- glint,
- visual sense,
- exteriorise,
- look up to,
- check,
- centre,
- crowbar,
- pathfinder,
- pipage,
- clasp,
- snatch,
- predict,
- secern,
- celebrated,
- arrogate,
- inquire,
- serve,
- far-famed,
- turn over,
- straighten out,
- file,
- excavation,
- think over,
- research,
- encounter,
- reach,
- place,
- take heed,
- wooden leg,
- visual modality,
- savvy,
- signalize,
- pick up,
- con,
- omen,
- scratch,
- get it on,
- look,
- characteristic,
- wisecrack,
- departure,
- fall upon,
- get onto,
- cotton on,
- pack,
- grasp,
- office,
- everlasting,
- dig into,
- picture,
- promissory note,
- go out,
- sodding,
- classify,
- spectator,
- establish,
- regulate,
- lower,
- trope,
- take away,
- dapple,
- conceive,
- take in the sights,
- postdate,
- photoflash,
- advertise,
- probe,
- concenter,
- viewer,
- rich person,
- get along,
- accept,
- concentre,
- solve,
- gawk,
- muckle,
- orbit,
- scan,
- body politic,
- memorise,
- quail at,
- safety,
- drop,
- spy,
- picket,
- pursue,
- square up,
- regularize,
- be on hand,
- cranny,
- nose,
- incline,
- panorama,
- engage,
- grip,
- god almighty,
- escort,
- tell apart,
- instruct,
- instant,
- clench,
- miss,
- opine,
- compass,
- hatful,
- banknote,
- conceptualize,
- lout,
- dispute,
- clutches,
- attestor,
- fall out,
- topple,
- pinch,
- gumption,
- skim,
- newsbreak,
- watcher,
- paying attention,
- refer,
- succeed,
- have it away,
- mouth,
- try out,
- report,
- flash,
- partiality,
- extricate,
- throw,
- judgement,
- notification,
- property,
- takings,
- oaf,
- collect,
- offer,
- tend,
- register,
- fuck off,
- passel,
- poke,
- set out.
How to use "Be held" in context?
When a person is "held," they are tightly griped by someone else. This can be for a variety of reasons such as an emotional state, an advantage during a fight, or dominance. It is important to note that being held is not synonymous with being beaten. A person can be held without being harmed. The act of being held can be comforting and feels often like security.
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