BEHOLD (beheld, beholden)

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Irregular inflected forms: beheld    , beholden   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does behold mean? 

• BEHOLD (verb)
  The verb BEHOLD has 1 sense:

1. see with attention

  Familiarity information: BEHOLD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEHOLD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they behold    ... he / she / it beholds   
Past simple: beheld   
Past participle: beheld   
-ing form: beholding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

See with attention

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

behold; lay eyes on

Context example:

behold Christ!

Hypernyms (to "behold" is one way to...):

see (perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

They behold the newspapers
They behold themselves

Derivation:

beholder (a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses)

 Context examples 

Oh! She is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Then I went back to Nulato, and, behold, there was no Nulato—only ashes where the great fort had stood, and the bodies of many men.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

She turned her head and beheld the sight.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And she was surprised to behold that the less food he had, the harder he worked.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Then the man in the tree answered, Lift up thine eyes, for behold here I sit in the sack of wisdom; here have I, in a short time, learned great and wondrous things.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Have I the pleasure of again beholding Copperfield! and shook me by both hands with the utmost fervour.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Lo and behold, first thing out of the gate on the other side, we make another fundamental discovery.

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)

About two o’clock the mist cleared away, and we beheld, stretched out in every direction, vast and irregular plains of ice, which seemed to have no end.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And suddenly, not ten yards further, we beheld them stop.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)