0 past simple and past participle of detain
1 to force someone officially to stay in a place:
A suspect has been detained by the police for questioning.
I'm sorry I'm late - I was unavoidably detained.
A subgroup are detained under civil orders following non-criminalized but highly difficult or dangerous behaviour.
Nor is he detained by doubts over the accuracy of the reports and documents he quotes as his sources.
Following this, a large number of people were detained in barbed wire compounds.
Somewhere on the order of eight hundred people were detained there between 2002 and 2007.
Of the 737 admissions, 131 individuals (73 males) were detained or detained within a week of admission.
Of course, people who do not meet the criteria for commitment are routinely committed, and certainly the hospital could have detained her.
They provided a broad range of hospital and welfare facilities for the detained and displaced.
Another 308 were detained, and twenty-one were arrested, some of whom were later tried in courts and were likely to be sentenced to jail.
