Withholding is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WITHHOLDING in dictionary:

VERB:
• WITHHOLD, to hold back
• refuse to give (something that is due to or is desired by another)
• suppress or hold back (an emotion or reaction)
NOUN:
• the act of deducting from an employee\'s salary
• income tax withheld from employees\' wages and paid directly to the government by the employer
• the act of holding back or keeping within your possession or control

Words related to WITHHOLDING

withheld18 withhold18 withholds19

Words that contain WITHHOLDING

withholdings23 unwithholding24 overwithholding29

How to use WITHHOLDING in a sentence

• It was a right, of which he who deprived a fellow-creature was absolutely criminal in so depriving him, and which he who withheld was no less criminal in withholding.
• We are apt to regard it as sometimes giving and sometimes withholding power, and consequently are never sure which way it will act.
• I considered the withholding it at the last session as the expression only of a doubt by Congress of the propriety of the position, and not as a definitive opinion.
• Mother is withholding judgment until she sees you, but Daddy is on board.
• In other cases, the poets still feel called upon to teach these women how to make men submissive by withholding caresses from them.
• The withholding of rations in case of failure or neglect is usually an all-sufficient motive for prompt compliance.
• The tribunes impeached him before the people for withholding it from them, and by the vote of a large number of citizens he was banished from Roman lands.
• For youth is the period of giving, as gathering age is of withholding.
• At the close of the flowering season the bulbs should be gradually reduced to a resting state by withholding moisture.
• He had lived his own narrow life, and shared the sin, and assisted Wrong by withholding his full strength from the side of Right.
• In withholding advertising patronage from the Surtaine daily, the business men were not only seeking reprisals, but also following a sound business principle.
• It robs those to whom gratitude is due, for it is the withholding of that which is justly theirs.
• The opinion that women would be demoralized by voting, is no reason for withholding that right from them, if it be a right.
• Hume described the vote of the house of lords to be the unreasonable and wilful blindness of a miserable minority withholding from the majority their just rights.
• It follows, therefore, that, when sold, all the charges incident to withholding must be paid by the purchaser, and ultimately by the consumer.
• From this rule he never varied, save in the few cases where the interest of the tale could be better served by imparting information than by withholding it.
• I gave them the instructions about withholding their fire, and, grasping a carbine myself, pushed forward to where I could see outside.
• How can it be done? Not by withholding your letters from them.
• There is not the least contradiction in his testimony, though he gives a poor account of withholding it.
• Hers too was that meekness which willingly accepted all that the appointment of God brought her, showing in her acceptance no withholding of the will, no trace of self-assertion.
• And this withholding of their meaning is continual, and confessed, in the great poets.
• Nothing can be more inconsistent with true public economy than withholding the means necessary to accomplish the objects intrusted by the Constitution to the National Legislature.
• I am convinced that the integrity of the Union can only be preserved by withholding the armed hand at this crisis.
• Expressed in that manner it did seem to Howat Penny a small reason for the withholding of any paramount salvation.
• What could he gain by dragging up the black skeleton of the past? He was a free man now, and the withholding of that bitter chapter of his life would be the wisest course.
• She found a dozen excuses for withholding her invitation.
• I adopt these as the reasons for my action in withholding my approval of this bill.
• The delegates from these states in the convention insisted on having the privilege of importing slaves secured, by withholding from congress the power to prohibit the importation.

Similar words containing WITHHOLD without suffix ing

withhold18 withholds19 withholden20 withholder20 withholders21 overwithhold25 unwithholden22 withholdment24 withholdings23 overwithholds26 unwithholding24 withholdments25 overwithholding29

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