hold

v. t. & i. १ (to receive and retain; to have within; to contain; to have or retain within its limits as if in a container) धारण करणे, मावणे, –च्या आत मावणे २ धरणे, धरून ठेवणे ३ (to consider; to regard or to think) समजणे, मानणे n. पकड (स्त्री.)