GRE Word List
DETAIN
to hold or keep in or as if in custody
The meaning of the word detain is to hold or keep in or as if in custody.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
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| galvanic | of, relating to, or producing a direct current of electricity |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| inebriated | exhilarated or confused by or as if by alcohol : intoxicated |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |