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Word:

detinar :

detain (v.)
[ Etymology: Spanish: detener: detain ]

Derivatives of detinar

Glosses:

detain
v. (social)	1. confine, detain	deprive of freedom; take into confinement.
	~ keep	hold and prevent from leaving.; "The student was kept after school"
	~ straiten	squeeze together.
	~ gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, put behind bars, lag, remand, put away	lock up or confine, in or as in a jail.; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
	~ intern	deprive of freedom.; "During WW II, Japanese were interned in camps in the West"
	~ bind over	order a defendant to be placed in custody pending the outcome of a proceedings against him or her.; "The defendant was bound over for trial"
	~ imprison	confine as if in a prison.; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"
	~ cage, cage in	confine in a cage.; "The animal was caged"
	~ trap, pin down	place in a confining or embarrassing position.; "He was trapped in a difficult situation"
	~ keep in	cause to stay indoors.
v. (change)	2. delay, detain, stay	stop or halt.; "Please stay the bloodshed!"
	~ retard, delay, check	slow the growth or development of.; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development"
v. (change)	3. delay, detain, hold up	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"
	~ decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard	lose velocity; move more slowly.; "The car decelerated"
	~ stonewall	engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate.; "The President stonewalled when he realized the plot was being uncovered by a journalist"
	~ catch	delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned.; "I was caught in traffic and missed the meeting"
	~ stall	deliberately delay an event or action.; "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling"
	~ buy time	act so as to delay an event or action in order to gain an advantage.