0 to refuse to give something or to keep back something:
to withhold information/support
During the trial, the prosecution was accused of withholding crucial evidence from the defence.
Police are withholding the dead woman's name until her relatives have been informed.
She withheld her rent until the landlord agreed to have the repairs done.
The government is planning to withhold benefit payments from single mothers who refuse to name the father of their child.
1 to refuse to give something, or to keep back something:
Has the government been withholding crucial information?
The governor said he would withhold judgment until he receives the committee’s report.
2 if someone withholds something from someone else, they do not allow them to have something they expected to have:
In the stop-signal task, this tone indicated that the planned response to the grating should be withheld.
To modern sensibilities these key dramatic moments that withhold opera's defining force, the virtuosic voice, may seem odd.
Judgment should be withheld, not because patients are never accountable, but because clinicians and other healthcare providers are supposed to be partners, not critics.
A policy of withholding societal funds cannot be justified unless several conditions are met.
This enabled him to manipulate the chiefly system by promoting those loyal to him and withholding promotion from those he opposed.
For example, it is reasonable to continue and monitor immunosuppressive therapy while withholding invasive diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, antibiotics, pressor, intubation, and cardiac resuscitation.
Some people may suggest that the key difference lies in the fact that withholding tax-exempt status merely involves denying a benefit, not imposing a cost.
Can caregivers withdraw or withhold care from infants when death is inevitable or a severe disability is likely?
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