- a word derived from detain.
Example Sentences
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Bazoum and his undetained allies want regional partners, the U.S. and others to intervene.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2023
There was a faint hope in his mind that he might still vanish unthanked and undetained.
From One Man in His Time by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
And, undetained by Mrs. Gray's slow but honest entreaty to stay and share their supper, he left Rachel lighted him out.
From Rachel Gray by Kavanagh, Julia
Very strangely the thought of Eustace never came to her, or coming, but flitted unrecorded and undetained across the surface of her mind.
From Greatheart by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)
This might have seemed but the sport of chance had it not rested there, though undetained, and refused to part even when flight was free.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth