Word Meanings - DETAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To keep back or from; to withhold. Detain not the wages of the hireling. Jer. Taylor. 2. 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

Additional info about word: DETAIN

1. To keep back or from; to withhold. Detain not the wages of the hireling. Jer. Taylor. 2. 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. To hold or keep in custody. Syn. -- To withhold; retain; stop; stay; arrest; check; retard; delay; hinder.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DETAIN)

• Arrest Seize
• take
• stop
• capture
• withhold
• restrain
• hold
• detain
• apprehend
• Keep
• Hold
• retain
• guard
• preserve
• suppress
• repress
• conceal
• tend
• support
• maintain
• conduct
• continue
• obey
• haunt
• observe
• frequent
• celebrate
• protect
• adhere to
• practise
• binder
• sustain
• Secure Fasten
• assure
• ensure
• close
• enclose
• arrest
• Withhold
• Retain
• keep
• inhibit
• cohibit
• stay
• refuse
• stint
• forbear

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DETAIN)

• Release
• dismiss
• liberate
• free
• discharge
• expedite
• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract
• Grant
• afford
• yield
• concede
• acquiesce
• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• oppose
• discourage
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress

Related words: (words related to DETAIN)

• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• FREQUENTATIVE
  Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. -- n.
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• GUARDANT
  A guardian. Shak.
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• ENSURER
  See INSURER
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• SUSTAINABLE
  Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• OVERFREQUENT
  Too frequent.
• CHAUNTERIE
  See CHAUCER
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be