All detain synonyms

verb detain

• apprehend — If the police apprehend someone, they catch them and arrest them.
• delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
• confine — To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
• jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
• decelerate — When a vehicle or machine decelerates or when someone in a vehicle decelerates, the speed of the vehicle or machine is reduced.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• retard — to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
• nab — to arrest or capture.
• pinch — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
• inhibit — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
• bust — a raid, search, or arrest by the police
• withhold — to hold back; restrain or check.
• intern — to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
• restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
• ice — the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
• mire — a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
• impede — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
• constrain — To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• reserve — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
• buttonhole — A buttonhole is a hole that you push a button through in order to fasten a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• keep back — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• cheque — A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
• arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
• capture — If you capture someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war.
• control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
• bog down — If a plan or process bogs down or if something bogs it down, it is delayed and no progress is made.
• hold up — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• pick up — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
• pull in — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
• put away — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
• run in — an act or instance, or a period of running: a five-minute run before breakfast.
• set back — the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• send up — an entertaining or humorous burlesque or parody; takeoff: The best skit in the revue was a send-up of TV game shows.
• slow down — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
• slow up — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.