HOLD FIRM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hold firm mean? 

• HOLD FIRM (verb)
  The verb HOLD FIRM has 1 sense:

1. refuse to abandon one's opinion or belief

  Familiarity information: HOLD FIRM used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOLD FIRM (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Refuse to abandon one's opinion or belief

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

hold firm; stand fast; stand firm; stand pat

Hypernyms (to "hold firm" is one way to...):

insist; take a firm stand (be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hold firm"):

hunker down (hold stubbornly to a position)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s on something