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detain
verb detained, detaining
    1. To stop, hold back, keep waiting or delay someone or something.
      Thesaurus: delay, hinder, slow, retard, check, impede, prevent.
    2. Said of the police, etc: to keep someone in a cell, prison or elsewhere, especially before trial. See also detention.
      Thesaurus: keep, confine, hold, restrict, restrain, arrest, place under house arrest; Antonym: release.
Derivative: detainable
adj
    Derivative: detainment
    noun
      Etymology: 15c in sense 2; 16c in sense 1; from French detenir to hold.



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