detain

detain is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To keep back or from; to withhold. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To keep back or from; to withhold.
2. transitive verb. To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident.
3. transitive verb. To hold or keep in custody.
4. noun. Detention.
5. verb. cause to be slowed down or delayed

   "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"

   "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform"

   Synonyms: delay

6. verb. stop or halt

   "Please stay the bloodshed!"

   Synonyms: delay, stay

7. verb. deprive of freedom; take into confinement

   Synonyms: confine

Synonyms

delay, stay, confine

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in detain:

adient, danite, nidate, tienda

Common word forms

detains, detained, detainer, detaining, detainable, detainment

Words from these letters

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