Definition of Withhold

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Definition of Withhold
	Withhold To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. To keep; to maintain; to retain. Related Definitions: Action, As, Assent, Back, From, Grant, Hold, Keep, Maintain, Not, Proposition, Restrain, Retain, To, Withhold

Withhold Quotations

I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.
Puff Daddy

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
Abu Bakr

The main part of the Hyde bill is to withhold U.S. contributions to the regular assessed budget of the U.N. unless they make real and substantial reforms in the way they operate.
Cliff Stearns

There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.
Alberto Gonzales

A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.
Nelson A. Miles

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Agnes Repplier

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.
Lyman Trumbull

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.
Henry Williamson

Withhold Translations

withhold in Dutch is achterhouden
withhold in Italian is ritenere
withhold in Portuguese is retenha

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