Hold back, as breath
The crossword clue "Hold back, as breath" is answered by BATE, a 4-letter entry. Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BATE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BATE answer page.
Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for BATE
Every other clue in this collection answered by BATE, most used first.
- Diminish - used 50 times, most recently in 2023
- Restrain - used 33 times, most recently in 2023
- Moderate - used 31 times, most recently in 2014
- Lessen - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
- Decrease - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Make less intense - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Subside - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Back talk - SASS, used 334 times
- Back of the neck - NAPE, used 264 times
- Talk back to - SASS, used 156 times
- Flows back - EBBS, used 97 times
- Back - REAR, used 93 times
- Back in the day - ONCE, used 77 times
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