Words and phrases that have a meaning related to detaining: (122 results)
Often used in the same context:
Also try:arresting, imprisoning, interrogating, deporting, jailing, torturing, handcuffing, abducting, confiscating, persecuting, evicting, killing, apprehended, extraditing, incarcerating, arraigning, terrorizing, suspects, expelling, confining, convicting, seizing, ransacking, martyring, victimizing, brutalizing, prosecuting, abusing, cuffing, assaulting, incommunicado, massacring, impounding, assassinating, murdering, maltreating, raping, aggressing, indicting, blindfolding, subjecting, hospitalizing, restraining, oppressing, wounding, subduing, harassing, mistreating, rousting, frisked, ambushing, accosting, kidnapping, decapitating, injuring, remand, evacuating, sheltering, acquitting, extorting, raided, dispersing, absconding, exonerating, plain clothes, exiling, paroling, photographing, spying, circumcising, drugging, attacked, molest, expatriating, surveilling, entrapping, interviewing, disciplining, inciting, escorting, repressing, enslaving, blockading, coercing, questioning, overstaying, rounding, harboring, slaughtering, interdicted, censoring, derogating, solitary confinement, sodomise, barging, quarantining, ramming, hassling, breathalyse, depriving, vilifying, hunger strike, conduct, confinement, detention, detentions, fencing, hereafter, imprisonment, imprisonments, interception, opener, recoveries, suits, takings, trespass, withholding, ...., 3rd, abrasion, abutment, ac
— Adjectives for detaining: unlawful, better, long, wrongful
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