Crossword-Solution: DETAIN 6 letters, 67 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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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.

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Word Anagrams
DETAIN anagram ADIENT, ANDTIE, DANITE, DINEAT, NIDATE, TADINE, TIENDA

We have 67 clues for the answer “DETAIN”

Clue Answers
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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One who, or that which, eats.
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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.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992
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.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
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.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
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.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
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.
The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994

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…
Chelsea Fine Anew
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.
Kelseyleigh Reber If I Resist
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…
Thomas Gillet The Juvenile Wreath; Consisting of Poems, Chiefly on the Subject of Natural History
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 37 times in crossword archives (1960–2024).