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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

hold by the button en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (archaic, idiomatic, transitive) To detain in conversation to the point of weariness or tedium; to bore while tallking to
    • When a slanderer addresses himself to any one, let him only withhold his attention, while he argues thus with himself: --- Why does this man hold me by the button, and seem so desirous of calling my attention to another's failings? 1798, A Clergyman of the County of Kent, Crude Thoughts:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
held by the button Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
held by the button Tense=Past lexicographic
holds by the button Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
holding by the button Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

buttonhole