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verb [T often passive] ━━ vt. 引止める; 拘留する.
1 to force someone officially to stay in a place:
A suspect has been detained by the police for further questioning.
Several of the injured were detained overnight in hospital.
2 to delay someone for a short length of time:
I'm sorry I'm late - I was unavoidably detained.
detainee
noun [C]━━ n. 拘留者; 未決囚.
a person who has been officially ordered to stay in a prison or similar place, especially for political reasons:
a political detainee
detention
noun
1 [U] when someone is officially detained:
Concern has been expressed about the death in detention of a number of political prisoners.
2 [C or U] a form of punishment in which school children are made to stay at school for a short time after classes have ended:
She's had four detentions this term.
Pronunciation: /ˈtɔːtʃə /
Definition of torture in English:
NOUN
1The action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or in order to force them to do or say something:the torture of political prisonersconfessions extracted under torture[ AS MODIFIER] : a torture chamber
VERB
Origin
late Middle English (in the sense 'distortion, twisting', or a physical disorder characterized by this): via Frenchfrom late Latin tortura 'twisting, torment', from Latintorquere 'to twist'.
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