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— English words —

• detain v. (Transitive) To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
• detain v. (Transitive) To put under custody.
• detain v. (Transitive) To keep back or from; to withhold.
• detain v. (Transitive) To seize goods for official purposes.

— English words, defined in German —

• detain V. Jemanden aufhalten, jemanden festhalten.
• detain V. Jemanden in Haft nehmen / halten.
• detain V. Pädagogik: jemanden nachsitzen lassen.

— English words, defined in French —

• detain v. (Justice) Détenir.
• detain v. Retenir.

— English word, defined in Spanish —

• detain v. Detener.

23 English words from 4 English definitions

attention back claims custody for from goods holding keep keep␣back making official proceeding purposes put put␣under seize someone their them Transitive under withhold

2 English words from 6 foreign definitions

Haft Justice

11 foreign words from 6 foreign definitions

aufhalten Detener Détenir festhalten halten jemanden lassen nachsitzen nehmen Pädagogik Retenir

15 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

detains detained detainee detainer detainder detainees detainers detainest detaineth detaining detainable detainders detainings detainment detainments

8 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

redetains redetained undetained redetaining undetainable ghost␣detainee ghost␣detainees unlawful␣detainer

One prefix (New word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

redetain

16 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Ain AIN ain' det Det DET det. Det. eta ETA Étaín tai Tai TAI tain Tain

13 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ate Até Atë -ate ated -ated IAT nia Nia NIA ted Ted TED

8 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

Danite indate in␣date nidate -tadine taneid tienda Tienda

60 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

anted␣in antidep antired audient auntied binated candite danaite Danites defiant dematin dential depaint destain detains detrain deviant dietman Dietman ditaine e-dating edutain fainted hainted inadept indates inedita innated instead kandite mediant natride nidated nidates nivated painted pantied patined Randite RANDite sainted satined Sidetan stained taeniid tailend tail-end tail␣end tainted taneids +10 words

37 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Adeni Aiden Aitne Andie anted antie atend daint dain't Dante denat denat. denti- detin Diane eat-in eatin' eat␣in Edina Endia entad entia Étaín idant Idean ideat ident inate indet. Teian teind Tenda tenia tiend tinda tinea tined

6 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

demain derain detail de-tail detwin retain

2 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

detin Étaín

2 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

destain detrain

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