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Webster's Online English Dictionary

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detain


detain is a   Verb

Definition:

[1] To keep back or from; to withhold. Detain not the wages of the hireling. Jer. Taylor.

[2] To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident. Let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee. Judges xiii. 15.

[3] To hold or keep in custody.


Synonyms:

arrest
check
delay
retain
retard
stay
stop
withhold
hinde

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