held the phone (verb) bide: wait
Sinonime: apocalyptic, apocalyptical, baneful,
calamitous, cataclysmic,
catastrophic,
destructive,
dire, direful,
disastrous,
fatal, fire-and-brimstone,
grave,
lethal,
mortal,
ominous, portentous, ruinous,
unluckyAntonime: go,
hurry,
move