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Latest post Thu, Aug 17 2006 3:48 PM by Ipodmini. 2 replies.
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Ipodmini  +  256817 Thu, 17 Aug 06 12:41 PM

This software held strong to a barrage of attempts to bypass it. This is the level of security that people in offices or in other public settings crave.

(1)"hold" is a verb, why "strong", but not "strongly"

(2)If "to" is replaced with "against", Does the sentence mean differently ?
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Marius Hancu, 3 yr 98 days ago
strong=strongly in AmE

hold strong against
would work too, IMO
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Ipodmini, 3 yr 97 days ago
Thanks!
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