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Wrong :: Wrong (v. t.) To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure..

Withhold :: Withhold (v. t.) To keep; to maintain; to retain.

Subtractive :: Subtraction (n.) The withdrawing or withholding from a person of some right to which he is entitled by law.

Defer :: Defer (v. t.) To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.

Retention :: Retention (n.) The act of withholding; retraint; reserve.

Defraud :: Defraud (v. t.) To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld..

Estrange :: Estrange (v. t.) To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with..

Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To withhold; to forbear.

Detention :: Detention (n.) The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.

Mulct :: Mulct (v. t.) Hence, to deprive of; to withhold by way of punishment or discipline..

Deforce :: Deforce (v.) To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold..

Unbelief :: Unbelief (n.) The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism.

Withhold :: Withhold (v. t.) To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition..

Retainer :: Retainer (n.) The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right.

Withholder :: Withholder (n.) One who withholds.

Withholding :: Withholding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Withhol.

Rob :: Rob (v. t.) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud; as, to rob one of his rest, or of his good name; a tree robs the plants near it of sunlight..

Abstain :: Abstain (v. t.) To hinder; to withhold.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold.

Withholden :: Withholden () of Withhol.

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