| 单词 | detain |
| 释义 | detain (once / 258 pages) v When you detain someone, you hold them back, slow them down, or stop them from moving on. If you are detained by the police, you may be late for the big football game, even if you were speeding to get there by the kickoff. There are lots of words that contain the root tain, like contain and retain. These come from Latin tenere, which means "to hold." Detain is specifically used when you're talking about holding someone so they can't go anywhere. It's often used in discussions involving the police who detain people who they think might be guilty. But you can use detain, say, when you're explaining why you were late: "I was detained at the office by a conference call that wouldn't end. Sorry." WORD FAMILYdetain: detained, detainee, detaining, detainment, detains, detention+/detainee: detainees/detainment: detainments/detention: detentions USAGE EXAMPLESAccording to the BBC, none of the detained are thought to be the gunman. Time(Jan 02, 2017) The driver abandoned the car and fled on foot; his female passenger was detained and questioned by authorities, and later released, Nicholson said. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) Rohingya activists said that police retaliated by detaining all males older than 8 for two days. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1v cause to be slowed down or delayed Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper delay, hold up hurry, rush urge to an unnatural speed stonewall engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate catchdelay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned stalldeliberately delay an event or action buy timeact so as to delay an event or action in order to gain an advantage decelerate, retard, slow, slow down, slow up lose velocity; move more slowly 2v stop or halt Syn|Hyper delay, stay check, delay, retard slow the growth or development of 3v deprive of freedom; take into confinement Syn|Ant|Hypo confine free, liberate, loose, release, unloose, unloosen grant freedom to; free from confinement keep hold and prevent from leaving straitensqueeze together gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remandlock up or confine, in or as in a jail interndeprive of freedom bind overorder a defendant to be placed in custody pending the outcome of a proceedings against him or her imprisonconfine as if in a prison cage, cage inconfine in a cage pin down, trapplace in a confining or embarrassing position keep incause to stay indoors |
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