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To put into a stable or unalterable form:
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  1. To put into a stable or unalterable form:
  2. (Informal) To influence the result or action of (a horse race, jury, election, etc.) to one's advantage by bribery, trickery, etc.
  3. To restore to proper condition or working order; repair:
control
A standard of comparison for checking or verifying the results of an experiment. In an experiment to test the effectiveness of a new drug, for example, one group of subjects (the control group) receives an inactive substance or placebo , while a comparison group receives the drug being tested.
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  1. A standard of comparison for checking or verifying the results of an experiment. In an experiment to test the effectiveness of a new drug, for example, one group of subjects (the control group) receives an inactive substance or placebo , while a comparison group receives the drug being tested.
  2. To adjust to a requirement; regulate:
  3. To hold in restraint; check:
Find another word for hold-down. In this page you can discover 6 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for hold-down, like: fix, pin-down, control, prevent, restrain and hold.

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  • Cynthia would attend the New Jersey wedding—thank God for Visa—while Fred and Dean would hold down Bird Song.

  • "C'mon, c'mon," she whispered desperately, her throat burning with acid as she struggled to hold down her stomach.

  • In short, Abdur Rahman's reign produced an important political revolution, or reformation, in Afghanistan, which rose from the condition of a country distracted by chronic civil wars, under rulers whose authority depended upon their power to hold down or conciliate fierce and semi-independent tribes in the outlying parts of the dominion, to the rank of a formidable military state governed autocratically.

  • The strength of Mercia or Northumbria might be mustered for, a single battle, but could not supply a standing army to hold down the vanquished.

  • He worked forward into the Danelagh, building burhs as he advanced, to hold down each district that he won.

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