Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Withhold

Withhold , transitive verb

[With again, against, back + hold.]

1.
To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.
Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. — Spenser
2.
To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition.
Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good. — Milton
3.
To keep; to maintain; to retain. [Obsolete]
To withhold it the more easily in heart. — Chaucer