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DETAIN

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detain verb tranzitiv

1. a deţine, a reţine în închisoare.

2. a reţine, a opri (din salariu).

3. a ţine în loc (circulaţia), a reţine, a întârzia, a împiedica.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I would have withdrawn, but the Doctor made a gesture to detain me, and I remained.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He could say no more, for Fanny would be no longer detained.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

It ended with Johnson flinging off Louis’s detaining arm and starting forward.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

It need not detain us long.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Mr. Bingley will not be detained in London by them.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

It was some time before she could find what she looked for; and other family matters occurring to detain her, a quarter of an hour had elapsed ere she returned downstairs with the volume from which so much was hoped.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

His business, whatever it was, detained him from day to day, but evening seldom failed to bring him out to see—well, he always asked for Mr. March, so I suppose he was the attraction.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I must speak to you for a few minutes, but I will not detain you long.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

And not all that could be urged to detain her succeeded.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

It may be easily believed, that however little of novelty could be added to their fears, hopes, and conjectures, on this interesting subject, by its repeated discussion, no other could detain them from it long, during the whole of the journey.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

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