Detain is valid Scrabble Word

Is detain a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is detain valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for DETAIN in dictionary:

VERB:

to hold in custody
keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention
keep (someone) in official custody, typically for questioning about a crime or in a politically sensitive situation
officially seize and hold (goods)
delay (someone)
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.
deprive of freedom; take into confinement
stop or halt

cause to be slowed down or delayed

NOUN:

Detention.

Words related to DETAIN

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Words that contain DETAIN

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How to use DETAIN in a sentence

He had some extra work on hand that night which he expected to detain him till eleven or a quarter after.
All he wished of his tailor was, to provide that sober mean of color and cut which would never detain the eye for a moment.
But I must not detain the reader on a defence of Satyagrah against unjust attacks.
Why did not some one rise up to detain him? Surely he was watched.
A body of cavalry went in pursuit of the fugitives, in case the tide might happen to detain them in the strait, or might carry the ships to land.
I will not detain the House with particulars of all the proceedings we have taken in dealing with the plague.
And that city, with which I had so intimate a connexion, could not, though it was very eager to do so, detain me more than one night.
I fancy that will suit Washington as well as to detain Captain Carlisle as my jailer any longer.
I will not detain my readers with even a brief sketch of his speech.
The present erection is well enough as a specimen of the Classic Renaissance, but need not detain us.

He then ordered his officers to conduct them into the hall of justice, and detain them there until he had decided respecting their punishment.
McDonald said, still trying to detain Guy and keep him in the room.
The orders read that the track was clear of all trains, and that no instructions had been received by the operator to detain trains for crossings.
He arrested her steps by making a random dash at the first question that might detain her.
That is one of the objects which detain myself, as well as one or two more of the Senate, who had got leave of absence.
She wrote a few hurried words to Jean Merle, imploring him to follow them at once, and promising to detain Felicita on their way, if possible.
He hurled aside those who sought to detain him, and leaped through the crowd and away.
After our declining this honour, they occasionally laid their hands upon our clothes to detain us, but it did not require much force to make them quit their hold.
The first of these three facts is very important, but is now generally accepted and need not here detain us.
The argument with which the South came to support its position and to defend slavery need not here detain us at length.
I shall not detain the committee, Sir, by laying before it any statistical, geographical, or commercial account of Greece.
But none of these ties could detain him, when the invitation was given to renew and complete his splendid career.
The points of difference between these authors need not detain us here.
Having nothing to deliver or receive that could detain him, the master determined to try in what time his vessel could run thither and back again.
I am not one of those tyrants who detain women by force.
The village is on the south side of the main road but need not detain us.
Ducour, living largely by your wits, and we must not detain you longer.
This first sojourn abroad was not immediately fruitful in a literary way, and need not further detain us.
He ordered the Minister of Ceremonies to detain the priest in the palace until their return.
The bishop might detain him for three months before his trial.

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