Definition of "hold it" []

• Used other than as an idiom: see hold,‎ it. (verb)
• Wait a minute; stop. (verb)
• To wait to excrete when one needs to. (verb)

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• "Imagining the power that the mysterious, planet-shrinking pyramid must contain…trying to conceive of the energies it would have to harness to pluck a world, intact, from its orbit and hold it in stasis…such thoughts terrified Maleiras to the depths of her being."
• "As for the Confederate left, Munford of the 2nd Virginia cavalry was instructed to "seize the Ely's Ford Road and hold it and keep me posted on that flank.""
• "Of one of the key discoveries of researchers in this arena, she has written, “They had demonstrated that big things like atoms were nonlocally connected, even in matter so large that you could hold it in your hand.”"