Synonyms for Detaining:

• adj.

  •hindering (adjective)
  • baffling,
  • blocking,
  • bottleneck,
  • burdensome,
  • choking,
  • constipating,
  • constraining,
  • crippling,
  • frustrating,
  • hindering,
  • impeding,
  • inhibiting,
  • restricting,
  • thwarting,
  • Clogging,
  • Damming,
  • Delaying,
  • Deterring,
  • Encumbering,
  • Entangling,
  • Entrapping,
  • Fouling,
  • Handicapping,
  • Obstructing,
  • Resisting,
  • Restraining,
  • Tangling,
  • Complicating,
  • Cramping,
  • Crimping,
  • Snagging,
  • Snarling,
  • congesting.

• v.

  •hindering (verb)
  • barring,
  • catching,
  • dragging,
  • jamming,
  • opposing,
  • stopping,
  • Bunging,
  • Burdening,
  • Checking,
  • Hampering,
  • Hamstringing,
  • Impairing,
  • Interrupting,
  • Miring,
  • Paralyzing,
  • Plugging,
  • curbing,
  • Staying,
  • countering,
  • bottlenecking,
  • braking,
  • fettering.
  •restraining (verb)
  • binding,
  • confining,
  • constricting,
  • controlling,
  • Bridling,
  • Leashing,
  • Shackling,
  • Tethering,
  • Collaring.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • appeasing,
  • appreciation,
  • apprehension,
  • arrest,
  • arresting,
  • attachment,
  • avert,
  • baffle,
  • bespeak,
  • block,
  • bounding,
  • captivity,
  • carry,
  • catch up,
  • check,
  • clutch,
  • clutches,
  • confinement,
  • continuing,
  • counteract,
  • custody,
  • dam up,
  • delay,
  • detain,
  • detention,
  • deter,
  • determent,
  • deterrence,
  • discourage,
  • dissuade,
  • disturb,
  • durance,
  • enclosing,
  • encumber,
  • forbid,
  • frustrate,
  • get,
  • hinder,
  • hold back,
  • impede,
  • impounding,
  • incarceration,
  • inhibit,
  • interrupt,
  • intimidation,
  • kibosh,
  • lagging,
  • lasting,
  • living,
  • obstruct,
  • oppose,
  • persisting,
  • preclude,
  • prevent,
  • prohibit,
  • quelling,
  • recollect,
  • repress,
  • resist,
  • restrain,
  • retain,
  • retaining,
  • retention,
  • seizing,
  • seizure,
  • slowing,
  • snub,
  • stand firm,
  • stand still,
  • stave off,
  • supporting,
  • surviving,
  • throttling,
  • tie down,
  • withhold,
  • Apprehending,
  • Caging,
  • Capturing,
  • Ceasing,
  • Circumscribing,
  • Deferring,
  • Defying,
  • Detainer,
  • Detinue,
  • Immuring,
  • Imprisoning,
  • Incarcerating,
  • Nailing,
  • Remanding,
  • Resting,
  • Retarding,
  • Prohibiting,
  • Stemming,
  • detentions,
  • jailing,
  • gaoling,
  • outriding,
  • set back.

Antonyms for Detaining:

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    release.