When you detain someone, you hold them back, slow them down, or stop them from moving on. If you are detained by the police, you may be late for the big football game, even if you were speeding to get there by the kickoff.
To keep back or from; to withhold.
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"
Verb
stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!"
Verb
deprive of freedom; take into confinement
v. t.
To keep back or from; to withhold.
v. t.
To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay;
as, we were detained by an accident.
v. t.
To hold or keep in custody.
n.
Detention.
Detain
Detain not the wages of the hireling.2.
Let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.3.
Detain
To keep back or from; to withhold.
Detention.
Usage Examples
I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.
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