unhold

present singular third person unholds · participle present unholding · past unheld · participle past unheld · participle past unholden · alternative un-hold

1. transitiveTo unhand, release from one's grasp, let go of.

   I unheld my ears. It wasn't all that yucky.

   2008, Jamie Gilson, Chess! I Love It, I Love It, I Love It!, page 10

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   The unrefuted accusation had also been a libel on yourselves, whose great intelligence has unholden Maga in so unprecedented a degree, and who monthly devour the astonishing number of six and thirty thousand of her copies.

   1857, William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, Miscellaneous Writings of the Late Dr. Maginn, volume 5, page 37

   For each man has the same problem — women — how to hold them when you want to hold them — how to unhold them when you want to unhold.

   1997, Sherwood Anderson, Welford Dunaway Taylor, Charles E. Modlin, Southern Odyssey

   Say the love, create the romance, fizz out the anger or walk away the way your heart wishes... Life is simple as we listen daily but only when we un-hold the load... Everything is changing around you and you also can't escape the change.

   2016, Manita Bajaj, Bharat Bhushan Bassan, Appraisals of the Soul: Musings of the Heart

2. transitivecommunicationsTo remove from a "hold" or "on hold" state.

   Scroll to Hold, and press the trackball. Your call is now on hold. Follow these steps to unhold your call: […]

   2009, Dante Sarigumba, Robert Kao, BlackBerry Bold For Dummies, page 120