detains
Saydi-TAYNZ/dɪˈteɪnz/
- 1Third-person singular present of detain.
Customs detains shipments that lack the proper paperwork.
The officer detains the suspect until backup arrives at the scene.
Note
The -s form carries every meaning of detain into the present with a singular subject: a guard, a court, or an agency treated as one body, such as Customs. Every one of those meanings is transitive, so the verb never stands alone. Someone or something is always detained, whether a visitor held back by questions, a suspect taken into custody, money kept back, or goods seized for official purposes.
detains is a form of detain
detain, verb: To place someone under official custody, preventing them from leaving. Full entry
- Spelling
- detain → detains: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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