pidättää

Definitions

• (transitive) to hold back, restrain, hinder, curb; to suppress; to suspend
• (transitive) to delay, detain, slow down, hold up
• (transitive) to withhold, deduct (advance taxes)
• (transitive) to reserve (a right)
• (transitive) to arrest, detain, apprehend, place under arrest, take into custody, put in detention, put under custody (both in legal contexts and elsewhere)
• (physics) to absorb