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DETAIN, verb transitive [Latin , to hold. See Tenant.]

1. To keep back or from; to withhold; to keep what belongs to another. detain not the wages of the hireling.

2. To keep or restrain from proceeding, either going or coming; to stay or stop. We were detained by the rain.

Let us detain thee, till we have made ready a kid. Judges 13:15.

3. To hold in custody.

 

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