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A person who restrains or checks or holds back
Answer for the clue "A person who restrains or checks or holds back ", 10 letters:
withholder
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Word definitions for withholder in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. agent noun of withhold; one who withholds.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Withholder \With*hold"er\, n. One who withholds.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who refrains from granting; "a withholder of payments" [ant: granter ] a person who restrains or checks or holds back
Usage examples of withholder.
I didn't want to sound like a dunce or a withholder of crucial information, but I had to tell him, for my sake as well as his own, when I realized what her statements implied.
I didn’t want to sound like a dunce or a withholder of crucial information, but I had to tell him, for my sake as well as his own, when I realized what her statements implied.
There is but one agent, without rival--the Keeper of the Holy Secrets, the Deputy of the Almighty Awfulness, the Giver and Withholder of Eternal Life.
Such was the justice of life that withholders of bad news could lose their heads just as easily as its bearers.
And the withholders were all the more difficult to identify, because they had no idea they were withholding.