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Ipodmini Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

hold strong to

This software held strong to a barrage of attempts to bypass it. This is the level of security that people in offices or in other public settings crave.

(1)"hold" is a verb, why "strong", but not "strongly"

(2)If "to" is replaced with "against", Does the sentence mean differently ?
  

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strong=strongly in AmE hold strong against would work too, IMO

  • strong=strongly in AmE hold strong against would work too, IMO
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strong=strongly in AmE

hold strong against
would work too, IMO

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