Word "DETAIN" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
cause to be slowed down or delayed
Synonyms:
delay, hold up

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
deprive of freedom; take into confinement
Synonyms:
confine

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
stop or halt
Synonyms:
delay, stay

Crossword Clues for DETAIN

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Keep in confinement or under restraint (6)
Delay, keep waiting (6)
Stop getting fed up in row
Hold daughter at home - past her expected arrival time (6)
Hold back LA Times Daily 13 Apr 2025
Chop out dictaphone to keep on hold (6)
Hold back from diet, an awful one (6)
Arrest and tie up (6)
Place in custody The Telegraph Quick 11 Feb 2025
Hold in custody Premier Sunday 02 Feb 2025
Keep in date, possibly (6)
Delay(6)
Keep for questioning
Unfortunately an edit brings arrest The Sun Two Speed 26 Nov 2024
Keep in custody The Sun Two Speed 26 Nov 2024
Hold up a€“ keep in custody (6)
Hold in custody Universal 31 Oct 2024
Hold tie and rearrange (6)
Keep me free of strange form of dementia (6)
Hold back noise around estimated time of arrival The Times Quick Cryptic 01 Aug 2024
Keep in date somehow
Keep from leaving Newsday 10 Jul 2024
Hold back and tie in knots! (6)
Keep possession of bad tea in row (6)
Keep one back or in custody (5)
Hold one in after having got the date wrong (6)
Hold back; keep in custody (6)
Stop Tina and Ed going out (6)
Stop row about Greek character
Ed and Tina have it and they can keep it! (6)
Delay or hold back (6)
Hold up Greek character in racket (6)
They withhold it in Aden
Keep one in and tie it a different way (6)
Keep one in; hold one up (6)
Hold one back while arranging date at home (6)
Hold up - keep in custody The Guardian Quick 15 Jan 2024
Hold in custody The Times Concise 13 Jan 2024
Keep in custody The Sun Two Speed 27 Dec 2023
Arrest Greek character involved in racket The Sun Two Speed 27 Dec 2023
How Ted and Ian keep it in custody
Hold, keep back
Hold in detention Irish Times Simplex 01 Apr 2023
Hold up LA Times Daily 13 Nov 2022
Hold in custody New York Times 31 Jul 2022
Hold up Thomas Joseph 10 Jun 2022
Hold back The Times Concise 31 Mar 2022
A sin leaving East Indian to be put behind bars Irish Times Crosaire 07 Jan 2022
Hold for questions LA Times Daily 24 Nov 2021
Hold up New York Times 10 Nov 2021
Arrest The Telegraph Quick 05 Nov 2021
Hold a cuddly toy after turning in The Telegraph Cryptic 29 Oct 2021
Hold up Thomas Joseph 04 Aug 2021
Hold back, delay The Times Concise 30 Jul 2021
Canines killed in terrible accident causing delay
A sin leaving East Indian to be put behind bars Irish Times Crosaire 15 May 2021
Keep (in prison) The Telegraph Quick 24 Feb 2021
Stop of French Express not right
Stop and make an edit 
Keep in custody The Telegraph Quick 10 Aug 2020
Hold in detention Irish Times Simplex 04 Jul 2020
Hold back Thomas Joseph 10 Jun 2020
Confine The Telegraph Quick 16 Apr 2020
Worried about brouhaha over arrest
Keep exotic fish in private room
Keep in custody
Keep in custody The Washington Post 04 Nov 2019
Keep in custody LA Times Daily 04 Nov 2019
Keep fish in private room
Row involving Greek character put in slammer The Sun Two Speed 29 Jul 2019
Keep in custody The Sun Two Speed 29 Jul 2019
Arrest Greek character involved in racket
Unfortunately an edit brings arrest The Sun Two Speed 31 Jan 2019
Keep in custody
Hold up Newsday 30 Dec 2018
Hold for questioning USA Today 02 Oct 2018
Hold up Thomas Joseph 29 May 2018
Hold (someone) back The Times Concise 22 May 2018
Keep in custody The Times Concise 11 May 2018
Keep in custody Universal 17 Apr 2018
Hold in custody Universal 07 Jan 2018
Hold for questioning
Keep in custody
Hold in custody
Get out onto platform, but missing right stop
Abandon rail transport, losing heart with delay
Hold back Greek character during row
Keep from leaving Newsday 08 Mar 2017
Hold up Wall Street Journal 28 Jan 2017
Outcry over nationalist group's arrest
Hold and tie in knots The Telegraph Cryptic 31 Oct 2016
Intern gives writer back Irish tale Irish Times Crosaire 24 May 2016
Worried about fuelling row? Shut up! The Times Cryptic 29 Apr 2016
Delay The Telegraph Quick 03 Apr 2016
Take into confinement The Telegraph Quick 16 Jan 2016
Take into confinement The Guardian Speedy 03 Jan 2016
Arrest Greek character involved in row
Keep in custody Premier Sunday 30 Aug 2015
Delay by putting the date in wrongly
Arrest The Telegraph Quick 18 May 2015
Hold in custody The Telegraph Quick 10 Mar 2015
Keep in custody
Hold back
Hold for questioning, perhaps
Hold up
Hold for questioning
Hold for questioning
Keep waiting
Keep in custody
Hold up
Keep from leaving
Keep back
Hold temporarily
Hold up
Hold back
Hold
Hold up
Hold up
Hold
Hold back
Keep from leaving
Hold in custody
Hold up
Keep in custody
Confine
Checks
Keep from leaving
Hold back
Hold in custody
Keep under restraint
Retard
Check.
Hold up.
Keep waiting.
Keep waiting
Hold back.
Withheld.
Keep in custody.
Withhold.
Make late.
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