pidätellä — meaning in English
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English meaning
- detain verb To officially hold someone, preventing them from leaving.
- deter verb To discourage someone from doing something, usually through fear of a consequence.
- heft noun The feel of the weight of something; heaviness.
- hold verb To grasp, carry, or support something with your hands or arms.
- mask noun A covering worn over the face for disguise, protection, or costume.
Senses
pidätellä is used for these senses in English:
- detain (transitive) To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
- deter (transitive) To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage.
- disincentivize (transitive) To discourage or demotivate by means of a disincentive.
- heft (agriculture) To cause (milk) to be held in a cow's udder until the latter becomes hard and swollen, either by not milking the cow or by stopping up the teats, to make the cow look healthy; also, to cause (a cow) to have an udder in this condition.
- hold (transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
- mask (transitive) To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor.
- prairie dog (slang, idiomatic, euphemistic) To struggle to hold back an involuntary bowel movement.
detain — full definition
- verb To officially hold someone, preventing them from leaving.
- verb To delay someone or keep them from moving on.