DETAIN

v. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To keep back or from; to withhold. Detain not the wages of the hireling. Jer. Taylor.

2.
v.

To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident. Let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee. Judges xiii. 15.

3.
v.

To hold or keep in custody.

4.
n.

Detention. [Obs.] Spenser.

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