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Synset

wait before acting
<verb.stative>   freq. cnt.: 49 freq. cnt.: 49

hold back more info
hold off more info
wait more info

sample sentences

"the scientists held off announcing their results until they repeated the experiment"

verb frames

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
They %s to move

verb frames

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
They %s a long time

verb frames

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
They %s a long time
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
waiter wait
semantic pointers
hypernym
act, move
hyponym
hold out delay