detain

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪn

Verb

detain (third-person singular simple present detains, present participle detaining, simple past and past participle detained)

1. Keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
2. (transitive) To put under custody.

Translations

to put under custody

Arabic: يعتقل Bosnian: zadržati (bs) Bulgarian: задържам (bg), арестувам (bg) Finnish: pidättää (fi) French: détenir (fr), arrêter (fr) German: verhaften (de)

Hungarian: őrizetbe vesz (hu) Italian: detenere (it), trattenere (it) Latin: teneo (la) Russian: задерживать (ru) Spanish: detener (es), retener (es) Swedish: gripa (sv)

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Estonian: arreteerima or kinni pidama