To hold out Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions
  1. . (a) To extend; to offer. "Fortune holds out these to you as rewards." B. Jonson. (b) To continue to do or to suffer; to endure. "He can not long hold out these pangs." Shak.
Definitions
  1. to last; to endure; to continue; to maintain one's self; not to yield or give way.

Webster 1913