HOLD IN Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

hold (in)

verb

Definition of hold (in)

as in to hide

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Verb

If a suspicious sample directly reduces a model’s reward, the model could learn to hide its behavior instead of correcting it.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
The Kettle Moraine State Forest is right at our edge, and there are nooks and crannies where something could hide.

— Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of hide

Verb

Clements is charged with two counts of first-degree homicide by vehicle, hit and run resulting in serious injury or death, stalking, and concealing the death of another.

— Dan Raby, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
Carvajal also rejected the suggestion that the group activated disappearing messages to conceal threats.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of conceal

Verb

Thinly veiled advertising that purports to be a news source has a long history, said Patrick Warren, a professor at Clemson University's Media Forensics Hub.

— Huo Jingnan, NPR, 30 Oct. 2026
The forests are thick with spruce, their needles a deep, musty green veiled in shadows.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of veil

Verb

Who should avoid mouth tape Specialists say the bigger worry is that mouth tape can mask something more serious happening in your airway.

— Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Still, this growth masks a widespread sense of anxiety, driven far more by Washington politics than anything to do with market fundamentals, according to a survey of regional oil companies by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in late September.

— Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of mask

Verb

Tornado Cash obscures transaction trails by mixing cryptocurrency deposits and withdrawals.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
Flock fights to obscure 100,000 cameras For Flock protesters, cases like the one in Florida are disturbing, since Flock appears to take great pains to obscure who owns cameras where and how large its camera network is.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of obscure

Verb

Google also says attackers use cloaking to show its advertising review systems different content from what people actually see.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Smarter agents might be able to cloak their actions such that human monitors might not know that something was wrong.

— Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of cloak

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