1. detain - Noun
2. detain - Verb
To keep back or from; to withhold.
To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident.
To hold or keep in custody.
Detention.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPeople who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. Peter Ustinov
My policy will be to detain and deport every illegal alien who is apprehended in this country. And we'll do it with an expedited hearing process so that millions of illegal aliens are not released into the general population with some hearing date down the road. Rick Perry
The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror -- the CIA program to detain and question key terrorist leaders and operatives. George W. Bush
The finest woman in nature should not detain me an hour from you; but you must sometimes suffer the rivalship of the wisest men. Richard Steele
Politicians only get to the top because they have no qualifications to detain them at the bottom. Peter Ustinov
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. Walter Savage Landor