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View definitions for held up

held up

adjective as in robbed

Weak matches

adjective as in postponed

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Plans for an estimated 19,000 homes are being held up due to the restrictions - affecting construction in 23 towns.

From BBC

Steel, which has been held up for months on obviously political grounds.

Currently held up in the Senate, the bill came to Trump's attention after a segment on the act aired on "PBS NewsHour."

From Salon

The shift from comfortably red on election night to uncomfortably purple two weeks later has been held up by right-wing agitators as evidence of voter fraud.

Wales had an early setback when lock Adam Beard was forced off injured and replaced by Christ Tshiunza before Rogers superbly held up Kerevi to deny a try for the visitors.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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