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detainingverbpresent participle of detain to take or keep (someone) in confinement by authority of lawPolice detained the suspect. apprehending, arresting, busting(slang), collaring, nabbing, nailing, nicking(British slang), picking up, pinching, pulling in, restraining, running in, seizingcommitting, confining, holding, immuring, imprisoning, incarcerating, interning, jailing, jugging, locking (up)constraining, limiting, restricting, shuttingbarring, gatingbagging, capturing, catching, getting, grabbing, grappling, hooking, landing, snapping (up), snaring, snatching, trappingbinding, enchaining, fettering, handcuffing, manacling, shackling, trammeling(or trammelling)rearrestingremanding emancipating, freeing, liberating, loosening, loosing, releasing, springingunbinding, unchainingdischarging to keep (someone or something) from proceeding or progressingShe sent word that she had been unavoidably detained. The plane was detained for hours due to inclement weather. delaying, holding up, keeping, setting backretarding, slowingbaffling, balking, blockading, blocking, bottlenecking, clogging, damming, hindering, holding, holding back, impeding, obstructing, snagging, stemminghesitating, pausingextending, lengthening, prolonging, protracting, stretching (out)deferring, holding off (on), holding over, laying over, putting off, putting over, remitting, shelvingconcluding, cutting off, ending, terminatingcalling, discontinuing, suspendingchoking off, reining (in), repressing, squashing, squelching, stanching(or staunching), stunting, suppressing, turning backarresting, bringing up, catching, checking, drawing up, fetching up, halting, holding up, pulling up, stalling, staying, stilling, stopping carrying on, continuing, following through (with), keeping (on), keeping up, persisting, running onadvancing, faring, going along, marching, moving, proceeding, progressing, wendingactuating, budging, driving, goading, impelling, propelling, pushing, spurring, stirring |