Detain

[dɪ'teɪn] or [dɪ'ten]

Definition

(v. t.) To keep back or from; to withhold.

(v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident.

(v. t.) To hold or keep in custody.

(n.) Detention.

Typist: Mason

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Restrain, stay, check, delay, retain, stop, keep back.[2]. Confine, hold in custody.

Typed by Edwina

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Stay, keep, arrest, check, withhold, delay, restrain, embargo, stop

ANT:Liberate, expedite, accelerate, dismiss, loose, disembargo

Checker: Rita

Definition

v.t. to hold from or back: to stop: to keep: to keep in custody.—ns. Detain′er one who detains: (law) the holding of what belongs to another: a warrant to a sheriff to keep in custody a person already in confinement: Detain′ment (same as Detention).

Checker: Rowena

Examples

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