Spanish word
detener
/deteˈneɾ/
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- Part of speech
- verb
- Level
- B2
- Frequency
- No. 1,330 in the course corpus
- Taught in
- Latin America, Spain
Meanings
- to arrest
- to detaintransitive
- to stop, halt, to pausereflexive, transitive
- to pull overtransitive
- detain(keep someone from proceeding)
- escape(to halt a program by pressing a combination of keys)
- hold down(to restrain)
- stall(to cause to come to a standstill)
Source: Tonada course · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL)