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MustAsk Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Withold from

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Can you say "to withold from doing something"? Sort of like "refrain".

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Yes.

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MustAskCan you say "to withold from doing something"? Sort of like "refrain".
I can't think of an example. What is the sentence you were going to use?

The most frequent pattern is:

withhold [noun] from [something/someone]

e.g.

withhold information from the public
withhold evidence from the police
withhold funding fro

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