Verb detain has 3 senses
  1. confine, detain - deprive of freedom; take into confinement
    Derived forms: noun detention1, noun detention2, noun detainee1
    Sample sentence:
    They want to detain the prisoners
  2. stay, detain, delay - stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!"
    --2 is one way to check, retard, delay
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. delay, detain, hold up - cause to be slowed down or delayed; "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform"
    --3 is one way to decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
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