Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cease to hold; let go the hold of.
  • Unfavorable; hostile.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To cease to hold; to unhand; to release.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive, obsolete To unhand, release from one's grasp, let go of.

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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

un- +‎ hold

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