HELD (IN) Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

held (in)

verb

Definition of held (in)

past tense of hold (in)

as in concealed

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An off-duty officer spotted suspicious behavior that led TSA to discover a knife concealed inside a prosthetic leg at airport security.

— Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 2 July 2026
According to Woodward, some emails in question -- which had their senders and recipients concealed -- were redacted to protect the names of victims.

— Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 2 July 2026

Definition of concealed

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Or, to put it in terms the Patriots understood, roughly 200,000 musket balls of metal were secreted away.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 June 2026
Queens are raised eating royal jelly secreted from the glands of worker bees and scientists have long believed diet was the main key to making a monarch.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 June 2026

Definition of secreted

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Many CEOs inadvertently dilute organizational thinking through constant interruptions and information overload, leading to cognitive fragmentation and deteriorating decision quality, often masked by positive traditional metrics.

— Gerald J. Leonard, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Dense fog shrouded the Golden Gate Bridge and masked the city's fireworks display.

— Bart Jansen, USA Today, 5 July 2026

Definition of masked

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Her name was obscured in the city records, but the Bee was able to determine her identity through a search of property records.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026
Even once the storms abated, a low-slung quilt of fog obscured the Navy Pier fireworks show later that evening.

— Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026

Definition of obscured

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Okay, good veiled Alexa/Siri reference.

— Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 June 2026
Though for many voters the initiative’s measures are veiled in the hypothetical, pegged to demographic projections, refugees, such as the residents of La Maison, and others within the asylum system will feel its effects in the near term.

— Jessi Jezewska Stevens, New Yorker, 8 June 2026

Definition of veiled

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