Antonyms for behold
bɪˈhoʊldbe·hold

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1. beholdverb

   Synonyms:
   get a load of

2. beholdverb

   To see, or to look at.

   Synonyms:
   get a load of

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1. behold

   What we discern we see apart from all other objects; what we discriminate we judge apart; what we distinguish we mark apart, or recognize by some special mark or manifest difference. We discriminate by real differences; we distinguish by outward signs; an officer is readily distinguished from a common soldier by his uniform. Objects may be dimly discerned at twilight, when yet we can not clearly distinguish one from another. We descry (originally espy) what is difficult to discover. Compare DISCOVER; LOOK.

   Synonyms:
   descry, discern, discriminate, distinguish, observe, perceive, recognize, see

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1. behold

   Antonyms:
   overlook, disregard, ignore, miss, blink, wink, connive

   Synonyms:
   look, discern, regard, view, descry, look upon, gaze, contemplate, observe, see, scan, survey

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1. behold, lay eyes onverb

   see with attention

   "behold Christ!"

   Synonyms:
   lay eyes on

How to use behold in a sentence?

1. Thomas Mann:

   The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.

2. Cassy Joy Garcia:

   I think bone broth is getting some new attention now with grocery prices on the rise and people wanting to do more with less, i feel like it’s an easy entry point for some good DIY kitchen basics. If you’ve already roasted a chicken, just go ahead and throw that carcass in your pot or pressure cooker along with that random onion in the pantry and scraggly carrot in the fridge, and lo and behold, you’re going to save yourself some money and have broth that tastes better and is better for you than anything you’d buy.

3. Bing Bush:

   We were just coming down for a beach walk -- we come down here quite a bit -- and lo and behold there's a chopper on the beach, we thought maybe it was a movie shot or a movie set or something like that.

4. Lisa Derderian:

   She was joking with people at the birthday party, she said I may have Covid-19, and lo and behold, she did.

5. Wallace Stevens:

   What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

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