The phrase "held in check" means to control or restrain something. Many antonyms can be used to replace this phrase to convey different meanings. "Unleashed" is an antonym that means to set free or allow to run wild. "Released" means to set free from confinement or imprisonment, and "unrestrained" means to be unrestricted and not held back. Other antonyms for "held in check" include "uncontrolled," "unchecked," "unbridled," and "untamed." Each of these options provides an opposite meaning, suggesting that something is no longer being controlled or restricted, which can be used in different contexts to add emphasis or nuance to the exact message being conveyed.

What are the antonyms for Held in check?

• adj.

  • pent-up
  • public
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  • released
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Famous quotes with Held in check

• In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

  George W. Bush
• The start of work means the end to freedom, but also to doubt, intensity and wayward desires. The accountant’s ten thousand possibilities have been reduced to an agreeable handful. She has a business card which she hands over in meetings and which tells other people—and, more meaningfully perhaps, reminds her—that she is a Business Unit Senior manager, rather than a vaporous transient consciousness in an incidental universe. How satisfying it is to be held in check by the assumptions of colleagues, instead of being forced to contemplate, in the loneliness of the early hours, all that one might have been and now never will be. … Life is no longer mysterious, sad, haunting, touching, confusing or melancholy; it is a practical stage for clear-eyed action.

  Alain de Botton

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