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Definition of Detain
Detain
To keep back or from; to withhold.

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

To hold or keep in custody.

Detention.

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People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
Peter Ustinov

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor

Are we going to go out and arrest and detain and deport 11 million people? Nobody would argue that that is what we are going to do, because we have never demonstrated the political will to do that, nor have we ever committed the requisite resources to do that.
Luis Gutierrez

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
Adelbert von Chamisso



Detain Translations
detain in Danish is opholde
detain in Dutch is reserveren, ophouden, detineren
detain in German is abhalten
detain in Italian is impedire
detain in Latin is retineo, detineo, prehendo
detain in Norwegian is oppholde, holde tilbake
detain in Portuguese is detenha
detain in Spanish is impedir


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