Retained is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETAINED in dictionary:

VERB:
• RETAIN, to keep possession of
• continue to have (something); keep possession of
• not abolish or alter; maintain
• absorb and continue to hold (a substance)
• keep (something) in place; hold fixed
• secure the services of (a barrister) with a preliminary payment
• keep in one's memory
• keep (someone) engaged in one's service
ADJECTIVE:
• continued in your keeping or use or memory

Words related to RETAINED

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How to use RETAINED in a sentence

• He was arrested in April, and was succeeded as Governor of the Hotel de Ville by one Pindy, who retained the office till the army entered Paris.
• In this country the leaves are frequently retained till spring.
• That each man will be retained in his place if he will but give reasonable application to the general interest of the organization and the particular work of his office.
• Holcombe still retained the second-story front room.
• The Christians retained the practice of their religion in their churches, but they were obliged to conceal their crosses and their sacred books.
• They were the eyes of the true visionary, but in such a personality they proclaimed the mystic who had retained his health of soul and body.
• Desperate as it appears to me, I will give you one piece of advice, as if I were retained as a counsel to assist you.
• The architectural type is generally retained, and it is rather a pity that there should be even what variation there is.
• The Sabbath day still retained a good deal of the funereal aspect with which the New England Puritans had invested it.
• As the seat of government and the residence of the royal Governors, it attracted much wealth, and developed a degree of culture which it has retained to a later day.
• The weather is warm but cloudy, so that the moisture retained by the bark after the rain leaves it slowly, though we have small fires constantly under the boat.
• I retained a sled of dogs, intending to drive them myself.
• There was reason for believing the other natives would watch them from the forest, and the one who retained his javelin was likely to seek the chance to use it again.
• If they can be retained till their governments become settled and wise, they will remain with us always, and be a precious part of our strength and our virtue.
• On his return to Paris, being retained near the person of the Queen, he kept him constantly in her view.
• In consequence, they have always retained the respect of the people and to-day, in every village, the cure commands extraordinary influence.
• After the banishment of the kings the Patricians retained exclusive possession of political power.
• I knew that very soon I would lose consciousness, and in that event I would soon be captured, so it behooved me, while I still retained my senses, to save myself.
• He was succeeded by Lord Bruce, who retained his office only a few days, and the next governor was the Duke of Montague, with Hurd, afterwards Bishop of Worcester, and the Rev.
• The clause was retained on a division by a majority of two hundred and ninety against two hundred and sixty-four.
• Mahmood abandoned his throne without a struggle, and, although he retained Herat, with the title of king, became, in effect, a vassal of Persia.
• No more troops were retained than a few guards and garrisons, about one thousand horse and four thousand foot.
• Emory Washburn appeared for the county of Worcester and I was retained for the county of Middlesex.
• The British Ministry did not discover the means by which the colonies were to be retained, if retained at all.
• The ancient position of the door, with its sill at a considerable height from the ground, is also retained.
• I am allowed to bring with me whatever assistants I require, and am assured that no one in the neighbourhood can be retained who dare sleep in the castle.
• I could not have slept long, and when I awoke my mind still retained its bitterness.
• III All through his life Keith retained a queer inclination to arrange furniture very precisely at right angles to the wall as close to it as possible.
• And yet not one clear circumstance is retained in my memory.
• Moreover, they still retained the sacred right of criticism of government, and rose superior in their private opinions to their own collective wisdom.
• The Chinese Annals, in De Mailla, state that the Japanese spared 10,000 or 12,000 of the Southern Chinese, whom they retained as slaves.
• But that the routes leading across them from Wakhan retained their importance also in Muhammedan times is attested by the greatest mediaeval travellers, Marco Polo.
• His imaginative mind still retained the impression that all the signs and omens were in his favor, and that the prayers of the righteous availed.
• The Fourth was largely new matter, while in the Fifth and Sixth such matter as could not be improved from the entire field of literature, was retained.

Similar words containing TAIN without suffix ed and without prefix re

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