All detention synonyms
de·ten·tion
D d noun detention
- confinement — Confinement is the state of being forced to stay in a prison or another place which you cannot leave.
- quarantine — a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
- incarceration — the act of incarcerating, or putting in prison or another enclosure: The incarceration rate has increased dramatically.
- 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.
- 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.
- custody — Custody is the legal right to keep and look after a child, especially the right given to a child's mother or father when they get divorced.
- internment — an act or instance of interning.
- withholding — to hold back; restrain or check.
- apprehension — Apprehension is a feeling of fear that something bad may happen.
- restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- pen — a female swan.
- bust — a raid, search, or arrest by the police
- detainment — to keep from proceeding; keep waiting; delay.
- pickup — an improvement, as in health, business conditions, work, production, etc.
- impediment — obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
- pinch — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
- retention — the act of retaining.
- immurement — to enclose within walls.
- arrestation — the slowing or stopping of the development or progress of something
- nab — to arrest or capture.
- imprisonment — to confine in or as if in a prison.