To detain, restrain (a person).

transitive. To keep in, confine, retain; to restrain, keep in check.

To detain; to keep in bondage, in custody, or under control. Also figurative. Obsolete.

figurative. To hold captive, or in constraint. Obsolete.

transitive. To deprive (a person or animal) of liberty or rights. Also with †from. Now rare.

transitive. To confine or imprison (a person). Obsolete.

transitive. To keep in confinement or under restraint; to keep prisoner. spec. To place (a political offender) in confinement.

to lay fast: to set fast, render unable to proceed or escape; †formerly, to put in fetters, imprison (also †to lay fast by the feet). Also to lay b…

To confine forcibly, keep in bonds, imprison.

transitive. To bring into straits; to put under constraint.

transitive. To confine, hold fast.

transitive. To hold fast, esp. in such a way as to make escape or resistance difficult; to hold down so as to restrict actions or movement. Also in…

To subject to restraint in the matter of. rare.

In Indian use, = detain, v. 1.