0 past simple and past participle of detain --
1 to force someone officially to stay in a place: --
I'm sorry I'm late - I was unavoidably detained.
A suspect has been detained by the police for questioning.
We need not be detained by the details of the argument, but the idea is simple.
Of the 37 patients diagnosed with a bipolar disorder in 1996, 12 patients were detained.
Of the 29 patients with any non-affective disorder psychosis presenting for the first time in 1996, 14 were detained under the mental health act.
With many men fighting or detained, villages were dominated by women and children.
Initially the police had detained him and accused him of theft.
Complaints about being detained emerge in the letters and diaries only when the rationale for quarantine began to appear to have been undermined.
Most of the other prisoners were released, except five who were detained to await the royal will.
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.
