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Verb detain has 3 senses
- confine, detain - deprive of freedom; take into confinement
Sample sentence:
They want to detain the prisoners
- stay, detain, delay - stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!"
--2 is one way to check, retard, delay
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- 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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