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English
Verb
hang onto (third-person singular simple present hangs onto, present participle hanging onto, simple past and past participle hung onto)
- to keep
2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 246b:They hang onto all these kinds of thing, and insist that only what offers contact and touch is a thing that is.