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Answer for the clue "Keep hold of ", 6 letters:
retain

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
RETAIN is a mainframe based database system , accessed via IBM 3270 terminals (or more likely, emulators), used internally within IBM providing service support to IBM field personnel and customers. The acronym RETAIN stands for RE mote T echnical A ssistance ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. hold within; "This soil retains water"; "I retain this drug for a long time" allow to remain in a place or position; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To keep in possession or use.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retain \Re*tain"\, v. i. To belong; to pertain. [Obs.] A somewhat languid relish, retaining to bitterness. --Boyle. To keep; to continue; to remain. [Obs.] --Donne.

Usage examples of retain.

For ourselves, while whatever in us belongs to the body of the All should be yielded to its action, we ought to make sure that we submit only within limits, realizing that the entire man is not thus bound to it: intelligent servitors yield a part of themselves to their masters but in part retain their personality, and are thus less absolutely at beck and call, as not being slaves, not utterly chattels.

The vinegar of Wood Anemone made from the leaves retains all the more acrid properties of the plant, and is put, in France, to many rural domestic purposes.

The act apparently assumed that while a member of the Cabinet acted as President he would retain his Cabinet post.

Food, as administered in the form of artificially digested and concentrated nourishment, is readily retained.

The best answer is that a brochure creates the drama of an advertisement but delivers a more complete sales message that can be retained physically as wen as mentally.

Even then, among the debris with smuts all over his face, he still retained his poise.

I find it hard to believe one orgy alumna would retain her suit when another did not.

But on the very brink of the grave she retained all her amiability, all her love of dress, and the graces and resources of a drawing-room society.

But he added a certificate upon his royal word to the effect that my crimes were greater than had ever been the crimes of any man, and that, whilst he renounced the prosecution before the courts of Aragon, he retained the right to demand of me an account of my actions before any other tribunal at any future time.

Lady Astatine was the only relative who retained critical objectivity.

Specifically, adding sufficient nickel results in the steel retaining its austenite structure at all temperatures.

Perhaps you have even guessed that my name is indeed Ali Baba, and, especially you noisy lot in the back, perhaps you forget that I once was one of the most talented of woodcutters, and have retained a facility for the exacting use of exceedingly sharp instruments.

Like the bayberry sprig, the pieces retained their true colors: blue, green, red.

Perhaps Benedict Bradbourne did not know the same sort of women as she did, those that used their brains for more than retaining gossip and planning dinner parties.

It must be that in her fullness Mrs Biggs retained a natural warmth which in its contrast to the artificiality of all else in Cambridge made its appeal.