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{
"term": "detain",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "detain",
"heSheIt": "detains"
},
"pastSimple": "detained",
"pastParticiple": "detained",
"ingForm": "detaining"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to keep somebody in an official place, such as a police station, a prison or a hospital, and prevent them from leaving",
"sensetop": "detain somebody",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "One man has been detained for questioning."
},
{
"text": "He has been detained without trial for nearly two years now."
},
{
"text": "She was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group."
},
{
"text": "Over 60 people have been detained in connection with the coup attempt."
},
{
"text": "Prisoners cannot be detained indefinitely without charge."
},
{
"text": "She was arrested and detained for distributing pro-democracy leaflets."
},
{
"text": "The law allows police to detain suspects for questioning for up to 48 hours."
},
{
"text": "Two people were detained in hospital following the crash."
},
{
"text": "Two men have been detained in custody."
}
],
"topics": ["Law and justice", "Crime and punishment"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["briefly", "indefinitely", "illegally"],
"verb + detain": ["need not"],
"preposition": ["for", "in connection with"],
"phrases": [
"be detained in custody",
"be detained in hospital",
"detain somebody without charge"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to delay somebody or prevent them from going somewhere",
"sensetop": "detain somebody",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I'm sorry—he'll be late; he's been detained at a meeting."
},
{
"text": "The minister was unavoidably detained in Lisbon on affairs of state."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈteɪn/",
"audio": "de/detain/detain__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈteɪnz/",
"audio": "de/detain/detains__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈteɪnd/",
"audio": "de/detain/detained__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈteɪnɪŋ/",
"audio": "de/detain/detaining__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈteɪn/",
"audio": "de/detain/detain__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈteɪnz/",
"audio": "de/detain/detains__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈteɪnd/",
"audio": "de/detain/detained__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈteɪnɪŋ/",
"audio": "de/detain/detaining__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘be afflicted with sickness or infirmity’): from Old French detenir, from a variant of Latin detinere, from de- ‘away, aside’ + tenere ‘to hold’."
}