Crossword-Solution: DETAIN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Detain | v. t. | To keep back or from; to withhold. |
| Detain | v. t. | To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident. |
| Detain | v. t. | To hold or keep in custody. |
| Detain | n. | Detention. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| DETAIN | anagram | ADIENT, ANDTIE, DANITE, DINEAT, NIDATE, TADINE, TIENDA |
We have 67 clues for the answer “DETAIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| keep someone behind | 1 answer |
| from leaving Keep | 1 answer |
| Keep under restraint | 1 answer |
| Keep from Leaving | 1 answer |
| Keep for grilling, say | 1 answer |
| Hold temporarily | 1 answer |
| Hold in custody | 1 answer |
| Hold for questions | 1 answer |
| Hold for questioning, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Delay by holding back or preventing the departure of | 1 answer |
| Keep in custody | 2 answers |
| Hold for questioning | 2 answers |
| Keep waiting | 2 answers |
| MAKE late | 3 answers |
| embog | 4 answers |
| HANG UP | 5 answers |
| APPREHENDED person | 6 answers |
| Keep in | 8 answers |
| Withheld | 10 answers |
| Buttonhole | 12 answers |
| back Hold | 12 answers |
| Bog down | 15 answers |
| Set back | 17 answers |
| Incarcerate | 17 answers |
| Hang-up | 19 answers |
| Keep out | 19 answers |
| Run in | 20 answers |
| Run-in | 20 answers |
| MAKE slower | 22 answers |
| Shackle | 24 answers |
| Custody | 25 answers |
| Immure | 25 answers |
| Slacken | 27 answers |
| Withhold. | 28 answers |
| Decelerate | 30 answers |
| Nab | 30 answers |
| Intern | 32 answers |
| Retain | 34 answers |
| Checks | 34 answers |
| Imprison | 35 answers |
| contain | 43 answers |
| Apprehend | 45 answers |
| Keep back | 45 answers |
| Gate | 47 answers |
| Capture | 49 answers |
| deter | 49 answers |
| MAKE less excessive | 50 answers |
| stall | 51 answers |
| Restrict | 52 answers |
| Hold up | 57 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DETAIN (5)
Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer, when the light-hearted and the loose-tongued had already their foot on the threshold; they liked to sit a while in his unobtrusive company, practising for solitude, sobering their minds in the man’s rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety.
They are to shadow—as secretly as possible—any stranger they may see, especially if he be tall, or stoop as if he would disguise his height.” “In no case to detain such a person, of course,” said Chauvelin, eagerly.
They took me also, but when I had told my story they did not detain me, other than to send me back to the convent under the care of a matron.
Thanks, good Pilgrim, for your information concerning the companion of my childhood.—Maidens,” she said, “draw near—offer the sleeping cup to this holy man, whom I will no longer detain from repose.” One of the maidens presented a silver cup, containing a rich mixture of wine and spice, which Rowena barely put to her lips.
Like a tigress she fought to free herself, or to detain her captor until the rescue party should catch up with them, but the scoundrel was muscled like a bull, and when the girl held back he lifted her across his shoulder and broke into a run.
Quotes with DETAIN (3)
Gabriel shuffled around the trunk again, searching for faux arrows — arrows designed to injure but not kill. “All these arrows are sharp — and have blood on them.”“Yes, well, I left my cotton candy arrows at home next to my teddy bear.” Gabriel turned to Tristan. “We’re not going to kill that guy.”“We might.”“Tristan, that’s homicide.”“It’s self defense.”“It’s not self defense. He didn’t come after you.”“But he came after Scarlet. And, technically, Scarlet is a piece of me. S…
I cannot detain Love, holding him captive so that he may never break my heart. No more than I can stick Guilt in a pot so that I may boil him until all of my sins are vaporized, rising alongside the screaming steam. I cannot hold Sorrow in my arms and rock him to a fit and endless sleep. Nor can I search for Joy and effortlessly find him beneath the pink-dusted sky of late afternoon, where he waits for me with open arms.
There was a warrior once who fought Against man's subtlest, mightiest foe, And more than valiant deeds he wrought T' effect th' enslaver's overthrow. But ah! how dread was his campaign, Forc'd in the wilderness to stray, Lone, hungry, stung with grief and pain, And thus sustain the arduous fray. Prompt at each call from place to place,'Mid sin's dark shade and sorrow's flow, He sped to save man's erring race, And bear for him the vengeful blow. But when his soldiers saw the s…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 37 times in crossword archives (1960–2024).