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detain

[ dih-teyn ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to keep from proceeding; keep waiting; delay.

    Synonyms: , , , , ,

  2. to keep under restraint or in custody.
  3. Obsolete. to keep back or withhold, as from a person.


detain

/ 藢di藧te瑟藞ni藧; d瑟藞te瑟n /

verb

  1. to delay; hold back; stop
  2. to confine or hold in custody; restrain
  3. archaic.
    to retain or withhold
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 诲别藞迟补颈苍尘别苍迟, noun
  • 诲别藞迟补颈苍补产濒别, adjective
  • detainee, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 诲别路迟补颈苍路补路产濒别 adjective
  • 诲别路迟补颈苍路尘别苍迟 noun
  • 辫谤别路诲别路迟补颈苍 verb (used with object)
  • un路诲别路迟补颈苍路补路产濒别 adjective
  • 耻苍路诲别路迟补颈苍别诲 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of detain1

First recorded in 1480鈥90; detainen, from Anglo-French, Old French detenir, from unattested Vulgar Latin 诲脓迟别苍墨谤别, for Latin 诲脓迟颈苍脓谤别, equivalent to 诲脓- de- + -迟颈苍脓谤别, combining form of 迟别苍脓谤别 鈥渢o hold鈥
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of detain1

C15: from Old French detenir, from Latin 诲脓迟颈苍脓谤别 to hold off, keep back, from de- + 迟别苍脓谤别 to hold
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Border Patrol Chief Agent Gregory K. Bovino posted on social media that agents detained two child rapists and 鈥渙ther criminals,鈥 and retrieved 36 pounds of narcotics.

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"They are not detaining them. They are not interfering in them going about their business. Their focus, their sole goal is the PKK."

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The Israeli military has released a Palestinian paramedic detained when Israeli troops killed 15 other emergency workers in southern Gaza last month, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said.

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He was detained in the early 1970s when the government in Northern Ireland introduced internment without trial for those suspected of paramilitary involvement.

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Indian authorities have launched combing operations in the region, detaining hundreds of people and destroying homes belonging to alleged militants.

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