0 present 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.
It is better to restrict liberty in such cases under careful judicial oversight than to go down the road of detaining people indefinitely without trial.
I come now to the question of detaining food for testing.
The man tried to escape, and while detaining him the officers were attacked by a group of ten to 15 men.
I wonder whether any of us would think there is very much difference between detaining the child as a punishment or not as a punishment.
Depriving a person of his liberty by detaining him in hospital is a serious invasion of rights.
Effective punishment, which depends upon effective conviction, is to impose forms of punishment that are effective in deterring or detaining.
The cost of detaining a person in police port accommodation is assessed by the port authority concerned and varies from one port to another.
The first is for detaining him here this afternoon.
