List of antonyms from "destroyed" to antonyms from "determination"
Discover our 279 antonyms available for the terms "detection, deterioration, determinately, deteriorate, detect" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.
- Destroyed (8 antonyms)
- Destroyer (3 antonyms)
- Destruct (4 antonyms)
- Destruction (6 antonyms)
- Destructive (24 antonyms)
- Desultory (2 antonyms)
- Detach (15 antonyms)
- Detached (25 antonyms)
- Detachedly (2 antonyms)
- Detachment (15 antonyms)
- Detail (15 antonyms)
- Detain (15 antonyms)
- Detained (15 antonyms)
- Detect (13 antonyms)
- Detectable (9 antonyms)
- Detected (13 antonyms)
- Detection (3 antonyms)
- Detention (6 antonyms)
- Deterge (19 antonyms)
- Deteriorate (28 antonyms)
- Deteriorated (1 antonym)
- Deterioration (11 antonyms)
- Determinately (7 antonyms)
- Determination (20 antonyms)
Definition of the day : « detain »
- verb hold, keep back; arrest
- "Don't let me detain you," said Halbert, with an elaborate share of politeness.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- What he had to say therefore on the subject would not detain them long.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- Mrs. Menotti tried to detain him; she could not understand what was amiss.
- Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri
- Then she withdrew her arms, and this time he did not try to detain her.
- Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
- As everything was right, the ship did not detain us, and we were permitted to proceed.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Where, he admitted with sorrow, he had no right to detain them.
- Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard
- These Delawares have their laws, which forbid them to detain you; but I—I have no such obligation.
- Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Maltravers did not seek to detain her, but silently followed her steps.
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- I'm sure I should rather have wondered what could detain him at Burleigh.
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- But, surely, he might not detain Mr Merdle while he assumed his coat?
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens