What is another word for "retain"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "retain": back, become, bird, bond, bring, captive, clench, clinch, close, clutch, come, custody, detain, detention, down, entail, fast, finger, firm, fist, forceps, grasp, grip, gripe, ground, hand, have, hold, hook, hug, husband, inalienable, incommunicable, interval, iron, keep, lucid, lucidity, mind, mortmain.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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