What is "held off"

Usage examples of "held off".

As long as the vile weather held off, the expeditionary force would be a surprise visitor to Kingshall.

In that way having the spider get held off was worse than having the house get smashed.

If the fuckin' mules had held off two fuckin' minutes, he raged to himself.

Only a man as troll-blooded as the Laird could have held off that long.

Pappenheim's cuirassiers were held off by the salvos of the infantrymen, while Ban&eacute.

They could have smashed Wunderland's cities from space, or vaporized the major bases in the Swarm, but they've held off.

Conscious of their status, its citizens had held off allying themselves with either humans or AAnn, sensibly evaluating the offers of assis­.

Reno, joined by Benteen--368 officers and men total--held off a relentless siege for the next two days.

I had held off the feegs by the simple expedient of keeping my closet doors closed.

Boys in Tikritiza had by tradition been held off from being circumcised until they joined the Arm at fifteen, and while that was not unique, it was unusual, and Nissim had long since suspected that Shaykh Tzidiki's fatwa on the subject had more to do with the Shaykh's involvement in the Committee than they had with anything else, as holy and learned a man as the Shaykh was.

Enough for large cataphract units to sally out and keep the first Malwa contingents held off for another few days.