Word: detain Word origin: late Middle English (in the sense ‘be afflicted with sickness or infirmity’): from Old French detenir, from a variant of Latin detinere, from de- ‘away, aside’ + tenere ‘to hold’. Phonetic: dɪˈteɪn Listen:
keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention. Example: she made to open the door, but he detained her
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