pidättää — meaning in English
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English meaning
- apprehend verb To arrest someone, especially a suspected criminal.
- arrest verb To take someone into custody under legal authority, typically on suspicion of a crime.
- bate verb To reduce the force of something; to abate.
- bust verb To break something, especially by force.
- detain verb To officially hold someone, preventing them from leaving.
- grab verb To take hold of something suddenly and firmly.
- hinder verb To make something more difficult or slow to accomplish; to get in the way of.
- hold verb To grasp, carry, or support something with your hands or arms.
- recoup verb To get back money that was spent or lost.
- repress verb To use force to stop an uprising, protest, or similar unrest from growing.
- reserve verb To book or set something aside in advance for later use.
- restrain verb To hold back or keep someone or something under control.
- retain verb To keep possession of something instead of losing or giving it up.
Senses
pidättää is used for these senses in English:
- adsorb (transitive, physical chemistry, physics) To accumulate on a surface, by adsorption.
- apprehend (law enforcement) To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
- arrest (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. [from 14th c.]
- bate To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
- bust (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone or a group of people) for a crime.
- fight back (transitive) to repress; to struggle to repress.
- grab To restrain someone; to arrest.
- hinder (ambitransitive) To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent.
apprehend — full definition
- verb To arrest someone, especially a suspected criminal.
- verb To understand or grasp something mentally.
- verb To anticipate something, usually with worry or fear.
arrest — full definition
- verb To take someone into custody under legal authority, typically on suspicion of a crime.
- verb To stop or slow down a process or movement.
- noun The act of taking someone into legal custody.