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The answer DETAIN has 131 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of detain in various dictionaries:
verb - deprive of freedom
verb - stop or halt
verb - cause to be slowed down or delayed
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| keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention. |
| Keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention. |
| To keep from proceeding delay or retard. |
| To keep in custody or temporary confinement: The police detained several suspects for questioning. The disruptive students were detained after school until their parents had been notified. |
| Obsolete To retain or withhold (payment or property, for example). |
| deprive of freedom take into confinement |
| cause to be slowed down or delayed |
| stop or halt |
| to force someone officially to stay in a place: |
| to delay someone for a short length of time: |
| Detain might refer to |
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Detention is the process whereby a state or private citizen lawfully holds a person by removing his or her freedom or liberty at that time. This can be due to (pending) criminal charges preferred against the individual pursuant to a prosecution or to protect a person or property. Being detained does not always result in being taken to a particular area (generally called a detention centre), either for interrogation or as punishment for a crime (see prison).* * The term can also be used in reference to the holding of property for the same reasons. The process of detainment may or may not have been preceded or followed with an arrest. * Detainee is a term used by certain governments and their armed forces to refer to individuals held in custody, such as those it does not classify and treat as either prisoners of war or suspects in criminal cases. It is used to refer to "any person captured or otherwise detained by an armed force." More generally, it means "someone held in custody." The p |