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Fast Hold Stand Principle Idea Change Mind People

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If you hold f___ to a principle or idea, or if you stand fast, you do not change your mind about it, even though people are trying to persuade you to.If you hold fast to a principle or idea, or if you stand fast, you do not change your mind about it, even though people are trying to persuade you to.
We can only try to hold fast to the age-old values of honesty, decency and concern for others.
He told supporters to stand fast over the next few vital days.
word fast
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adjective
Fast means happening, moving, or doing something at great speed. You also use fast in questions or statements about speed.
...fast cars with flashing lights and sirens.
Brindley was known as a very, very fast driver.
The party aims to attract votes from the business and professional communities, which want a faster pace of political reform.
The only question is how fast the process will be.
They work terrifically fast.
It would be nice to go faster and break the world record.
He thinks they're not adapting fast enough.
Barnes also knows that he is fast running out of time.
How fast were you driving?
How fast would the disease develop?
If a watch or clock is fast, it is showing a time that is later than the real time.
That clock's an hour fast.
If colours or dyes are fast, they do not come out of the fabrics they are used on when they get wet .
The fabric was ironed to make the colours fast.
A fast way of life is one which involves a lot of enjoyable and expensive or dangerous activities.
Life in Detroit no longer satisfied him; he wanted the fast life of California.
adverb
You use fast to say that something happens without any delay .
When you've got a crisis like this you need professional help–fast!
We'd appreciate your leaving as fast as possible.
That would be an astonishingly fast action on the part of the Congress.
If you hold fast to a principle or idea, or if you stand fast, you do not change your mind about it, even though people are trying to persuade you to.
We can only try to hold fast to the age-old values of honesty, decency and concern for others.
He told supporters to stand fast over the next few vital days.
verb
If you fast, you eat no food for a period of time, usually for either religious or medical reasons, or as a protest .
I fasted for a day and half and asked God to help me.
The fast is broken at sunset, traditionally with dates and water.
...the Muslim holy month of fasting and prayer.
inflections fasterfastestfastsfastingfastedfasting
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