Vocabulary
Detention
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
the act of keeping someone in a prison or similar place
Urdu meaning
حراست / نظر بندی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The National Commission for Human Rights has received numerous complaints of forced detention in rehab clinics, where women were locked away for disobedience, refusal to marry, or simply for not vacating family property.
- Reprisals can mean arbitrary detention, abduction, torture or death.
- Figures show 148 prisoners are infected in the detention centre, built for fewer than 2,000, but crammed with over 4,300.
- For starters, this regime has consistently shown scant regard for inconveniences like constitutional safeguards for citizens against arbitrary arrest or detention, or their right to a fair trial.
- One was arrested following detention for hours after being called in to answer questions by the FIA, while the other was simply `disappeared` before being announced as arrested.
Antonyms
emancipation, freedom
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