Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To keep back or from; to withhold.
- 2transitive verb
To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident.
- 3transitive verb
To hold or keep in custody.
- 4noun
Detention.
- 5verb
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
- 6verb
stop or halt
"Please stay the bloodshed!"
- 7verb
deprive of freedom; take into confinement
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