Retaining [adjective]
Definition of Retaining:
maintaining
Synonyms of Retaining:
● Saving
● Engaging
● Securing
● Holding
● Keeping
● Working
● Taking
● Seizing
● Hiring
● Owning
● Having
Opposite/Antonyms of Retaining:
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Sentence/Example of Retaining:
By retaining his own calm he saw that he kept a great advantage.
"A kleptomaniac," Smithson explained, retaining his manner of mild insistence.
They command us to assist and serve him in retaining his own.
A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
I had a long argument with him over the question of retaining Hell.
Marianne and Mathieu shed tears while retaining Constance's hands in theirs.
He succeeded, however, in retaining them, and in disarming their fears.
Those in favor of retaining the present minister of this parish will rise.
Retaining it, he spoke, his eyes sombrely, wistfully considering her.
He sensed a slight advantage in retaining this knowledge himself.