Synonyms 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

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

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

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1. behold, lay eyes onverb

   see with attention

   "behold Christ!"

   Synonyms:
   lay eyes on

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1. beholdverb

   Synonyms:
   see, observe, view, descry, discern, look upon, set one's eyes on

2. beholdinterj.

   Synonyms:
   see, look, observe, lo

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1. List of paraphrases for "behold":

   admire, embrace, look

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How to use behold in a sentence?

1. Helen Keller:

   My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

2. 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.

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. Albert Einstein:

   Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

5. Vulgate:

   Behold the man. (Ecce Homo)