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Holds vs Beholds - What's the difference?

holds | beholds |

As verbs the difference between holds and beholds

is that holds is (hold) while beholds is (behold).

As a noun holds

is .

holds

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (hold)

    • Anagrams

    *

    beholds

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (behold)

    • behold

    English

    Verb

  • To see, or to look at.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

    Usage notes

    Rarely used in informal speech. The past participle beholden now has a meaning detached from the other forms of the word.

    Synonyms

    * get a load of

    Derived terms

    * beholder ** eye of the beholder

    References

    * * English irregular verbs ----