All hold over synonyms

verb hold over

• recapture — to capture again; recover by capture; retake.
• waive — to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo: to waive one's right; to waive one's rank; to waive honors.
• mothball — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
• give up — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• prorogue — to discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body).
• clog — When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
• temporize — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
• tarry — to remain or stay, as in a place; sojourn: He tarried in Baltimore on his way to Washington.
• dilly-dally — to loiter or vacillate
• dawdle — If you dawdle, you spend more time than is necessary going somewhere.
• table — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
• protract — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• inhibit — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
• repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
• procrastinate — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
• arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
• confine — To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
• filibuster — U.S. Politics. the use of irregular or obstructive tactics by a member of a legislative assembly to prevent the adoption of a measure generally favored or to force a decision against the will of the majority. an exceptionally long speech, as one lasting for a day or days, or a series of such speeches to accomplish this purpose. a member of a legislature who makes such a speech.
• lag — netlag
• discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• deter — To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
• drag — drag and drop
• interfere — to come into opposition, as one thing with another, especially with the effect of hampering action or procedure (often followed by with): Constant distractions interfere with work.
• retard — to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
• slacken — If something slackens or if you slacken it, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
• linger — to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave: We lingered awhile after the party.
• choke — When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
• loiter — to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.
• remand — to send back, remit, or consign again.
• intermit — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
• pigeonhole — one of a series of small, open compartments, as in a desk, cabinet, or the like, used for filing or sorting papers, letters, etc.
• reside — to apply new siding, as to a house.
• perch — a pole or rod, usually horizontal, serving as a roost for birds.
• rest — a support for a lance; lance rest.
• freeze — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
• squat — to sit in a low or crouching position with the legs drawn up closely beneath or in front of the body; sit on one's haunches or heels.
• bunk — A bunk is a bed that is fixed to a wall, especially in a ship or caravan.
• visit — to go to and stay with (a person or family) or at (a place) for a short time for reasons of sociability, politeness, business, curiosity, etc.: to visit a friend; to visit clients; to visit Paris.
• abide — to tolerate; put up with
• cling — If you cling to someone or something, you hold onto them tightly.
• lodge — Henry Cabot, 1850–1924, U.S. public servant and author: senator 1893–1924.
• dwell — to live or stay as a permanent resident; reside.
• inhabit — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• hang — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
• nest — a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.