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retener

Verbo transitivoattested in dialogue

  • /[ret̪eˈneɾ]/

Hacer que alguien no se vaya o siga su camino, en contra de su voluntad.

Verbo transitivo

  1. 1

    Hacer que alguien no se vaya o siga su camino, en contra de su voluntad.

    English
    retain, keep
  2. 2

    Evitar que algo fluya, en contra de su curso natural.

    Synonyms

Forms

infinitive
haber retenido
gerund
reteniendo, habiendo retenido
third person singular
retiene
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Lexical content from Wikcionario, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-26

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).