Definition for Detention:

• The state of being detained ( stopped or hindered); delay from necessity.

Synonyms for Detention:

• n.

  •
  • breathalyze,
  • retention,
  • apprehend,
  • book,
  • Breath Test,
  • bounty hunter,
  • body search.
  •
  • confiscate,
  • free,
  • banish,
  • charge,
  • ward,
  • kneecap,
  • Grounded.
  •accusation (noun)
  • indictment.
  •act (noun)
  • detention.
  •apprehension (noun)
  • collarings.
  •arrest (noun)
  • gloms,
  • pick ups,
  • re straining,
  • re-straining,
  • restrainings,
  • protective custodies,
  • pull ins,
  • sequesterings,
  • preventive custodies.
  •confinement (noun)
  • de limitation,
  • de limitations,
  • boundings,
  • constrainments,
  • de-limitations,
  • de-limitation,
  • immurations.
  •confinement, imprisonment (noun)
  • incarceration,
  • pickup,
  • time up the river,
  • hindrance,
  • Detainment,
  • withholding,
  • pinch,
  • holding back,
  • pen,
  • impediment,
  • immurement,
  • holding pen,
  • keeping in,
  • restraint,
  • nab,
  • Arrestation.
  •delay (noun)
  • de lay,
  • coolingoff periods,
  • cunctations,
  • sur cease,
  • prorogations,
  • dis-continuations,
  • coolingoff period,
  • dis continuation,
  • de-lay,
  • tieup,
  • loiterings,
  • de lays,
  • lingerings,
  • pro-rogation,
  • sur-cease,
  • retardments,
  • pro rogations,
  • de-lays,
  • sur ceases,
  • showstoppers,
  • putting offs,
  • demurrals,
  • re missions,
  • dis-continuation,
  • re-missions,
  • cooling-off periods,
  • re mission,
  • sur-ceases,
  • tarryings,
  • pro rogation,
  • cooling off period,
  • pro-rogations,
  • re-mission,
  • dawdlings,
  • cooling off periods,
  • dis continuations,
  • hold ups.
  •detention (noun)
  • hold.
  •resistance (noun)
  • Insusceptibility,
  • impedance,
  • Renitence,
  • Renitency,
  • impeding,
  • impedances,
  • striking back,
  • imperviousness.
  •restraint (noun)
  • collar,
  • inhibition,
  • bridle,
  • restriction,
  • blockage,
  • stricture,
  • constriction,
  • leash,
  • shackle,
  • tether,
  • control,
  • bondage.
  •retention (noun)
  • with holdings,
  • with holding,
  • with-holdings.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • preventive detention,
  • Botany Bay,
  • waterboarding.
  •
  • captive,
  • condemned.
  •
  • custodial,
  • resistance.
  •
  • inside.
  •
  • serve.
  •
  • fine,
  • stretch.
  •
  • term.
  •
  • ground.
  •
  • go down.

Paraphrases for Detention:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    Detainment, jailing.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    detentions.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    Migrants, checks, therapies, controls, penitentiary, Penitentiaries.
  • Noun, plural
    suspects, halts.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Institutionalization, Reclusion, immobilisation, seclusion, concentration, deportation, abduction, isolation, Apprehending, gaol, accommodation, impoundment, reservation, Sentencing, institutionalisation, penitentiary, residence.
  • Verb, past tense
    Nabbed, released, kept, Had.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    confining, impounding, Possessing, seizing, Apprehending.
  • Verb, past participle
    Sentenced, apprehended, Indicted, spent, locked, Served, kept, Detained.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    Detained, arrest, detainee, remand, custodial.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Detained, orders, imprisonment, arrest, arrests, confinement, prison, Prisons, Detaining, incarceration, internment, detainee, detainees, remand, custodial, retention.
  • Noun, plural
    arrests, Prisons, detainees.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Detained, deprivation, imprisonment, arrest, confinement, prison, Detaining, incarceration, internment, captivity, sequestration, detainee, detainees, remand, retention.
  • Verb, past tense
    Detained, imprisonment, custodial, retention.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Detaining.
  • Verb, past participle
    imprisonment.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    detains.
  • Verb, base form
    arrest.

Antonyms for Detention:

• n.

  • confinement, imprisonment
    freedom, liberation, aid, release, help, assistance.
  • Other antonyms:
    emancipation, haste, discharge, dispatch, promptness, promptitude, rush.

Detention Sentence Examples:

• They tore the useless letter to pieces, that it might not prolong the detention of the old marechal, should it be found, and drew near the Place des Terreaux and the line of guards, whom they were to attack when the signal of the hat should be given by the young prisoner.

• On your word of honor there is nothing beyond the risk of a few days' detention which can affect me?

Homophones for Detention:

• denomination, de-iodination, demimondaine, deamination, downtime, dimetane, damnation, demotion, downtown, dindymene, denotatum, dentin, donation, detention home, domitian, denudation, detonation, domination, diamantine, dentition, domatium, Dama Dama, dantean, danton, diminution, denotation, dentine, dumdum, down town.

Hyponym for Detention:

• n.

  • act
    penalization, penalty, penalisation, punishment.