(US, transitive) Alternative form of hold to ransom

(UK, transitive) To hold (someone) hostage until a ransom is paid.

(US, transitive) Alternative form of hold to ransom

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hold a mirror to

To reflect; to represent and by resemblance provide insight into. / To elucidate; to make explicit some aspect of. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hold, mirror.

(transitive) To restrain.

(tennis) In a tiebreak, a point won by the server.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hold water

(idiomatic, intransitive, or transitive with to) to keep to a conviction, practice, etc., unwaveringly

(climbing) A grip fixed to a climbing wall that climbers can grab or step on