To grasp or grip. • To contain or store. • To maintain or keep to a position or state. • To have and keep possession of something. • To reserve. • To cause to wait or delay. • To halt or delay (medication) temporarily. • To detain. • To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person). • To keep oneself in a particular state. • To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain. • To bear, carry, or manage. • Not to move; to halt; to stop. • Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued. • To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function. • To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions. • To maintain, to consider, to opine. • To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions. • To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain. • To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain. • To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back. • To win one's own service game. • To take place, to occur. • To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice). • To derive right or title. • In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted. • To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.