detained
/dɪˈteɪnd/ adjetivo B2- Delayed or held back; kept from proceeding. · The detained train finally arrived hours late.
- Held in custody or confinement. · He remained detained pending trial.
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“You have not been long detained.”
I have a son too, and I should be very wroth with those who detained him from me after a three months’ voyage.”
A CERTAIN MAN, detained by a storm in his country house, first of all killed his sheep, and then his goats, for the maintenance of his household.
He was very late in returning—so late, that I knew that the concert could not have detained him all the time.
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