C2

detain

Meaning

  1. To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
  2. To put under custody.
  3. To keep back or from; to withhold.
  4. To seize goods for official purposes.

Pronounced as (IPA)
/dɪˈteɪn/

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