We found 29 dictionaries that define the word
detain:
General (24 matching dictionaries)
- detain: Merriam-Webster.com
- detain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
- detain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- detain: Vocabulary.com
- Detain, detain: Wordnik
- detain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
- detain: Wiktionary
- detain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
- detain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
- detain: Infoplease Dictionary
- detain: Dictionary.com
- detain: Online Etymology Dictionary
- detain: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
- Detain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
- detain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
- detain: Rhymezone
- detain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
- detain: Free Dictionary
- detain: Mnemonic Dictionary
- detain: Dictionary/thesaurus
- detain: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
- detain: Collins English Dictionary
Business (3 matching dictionaries)
- Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
- Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
- detain: Legal dictionary
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- detain: Encyclopedia
Slang (1 matching dictionary)
- detain: Urban Dictionary
(Note: See
detained as well.)
▸ verb: (transitive) To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
▸ verb: (transitive, law enforcement) To put under custody.
▸ verb: (transitive) To keep back or from; to withhold.
▸ verb: (transitive) To seize goods for official purposes.
delay,
hold up,
stay,
confine,
forhold,
inhibit,
retain,
hold off,
hold in,
hold back,
more...
wind,
obscure,
unvoyageable,
cold,
long,
more,
good,
partial,
raid,
nightly,
present
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