Anagrams of: DETAINED

• deprive of freedom; take into confinement

• stop or halt

• cause to be slowed down or delayed

• form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case

• in truth (often tends to intensify)

• (used as an interjection) an expression of surprise or skepticism or irony etc.

• declare untrue; contradict

• refuse to accept or believe

• refuse to grant, as of a petition or request

• refuse to let have

• deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure

• deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit

• refuse to recognize or acknowledge

• improved or corrected by critical editing

• of metal e.g.

• make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible

• cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients

• make vapid or deprive of spirit

• lessen the momentum or velocity of

• become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor

• make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation

• convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil

• interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by means of'