Rhyme Dictionary

Rhymes with “Detain”

/dɪˈteɪn/

To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.

♬87 rhyming words found

🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Detain"

50 words

These words rhyme exactly with "detain" — same ending sound.

Word	Syllables	Type	Definition
ascertain	3	verb	(transitive) To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
disdain	2	noun	(uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
sustain	2	verb	(transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
inane	2	noun	Lacking sense or meaning, often to the point of boredom or annoyance.
mundane	2	noun	Ordinary; not new.
strain	1	noun	(biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
attain	2	verb	(transitive) To gain (an object or desired result).
profane	2	noun	Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
plain	1	noun	Simple, unaltered.
bane	1	noun	(countable) A cause of misery or ruin.
retain	2	verb	(transitive) Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
domain	2	noun	A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.
legerdemain	4	noun	Sleight of hand; "magic" trickery.
obtain	2	verb	(transitive) To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.
swain	1	noun	(poetic) A rural lover; a male sweetheart in a pastoral setting.
explain	2	verb	(transitive) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
wane	1	verb	(intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
feign	1	verb	To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
train	1	noun	Elongated or trailing portion.
arcane	2		Understood by only a few.
constrain	2	verb	(transitive) To keep within close bounds; to confine.
refrain	2	verb	(intransitive, with preposition "from") To stop oneself from some action or interference; to abstain; to eschew
germane	2	noun	Related to a topic of discussion or consideration.
abstain	2	verb	(intransitive) Refrain from (something or doing something); keep from doing, especially an indulgence.
restrain	2	verb	(transitive) To control or keep in check.
contain	2	verb	(transitive) To hold inside.
pertain	2	verb	(intransitive) To relate to, concern, or be relevant to.
campaign	2	noun	A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
deign	1	verb	(intransitive) To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.
insane	2		Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.
reign	1	noun	The period during which a monarch rules.
maintain	2	verb	To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
brain	1	noun	The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.
main	1	noun	Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
remain	2	verb	To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
humane	2		Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.
inhumane	3		Alternative form of inhuman: lacking pity or compassion for misery and suffering; cruel, unkind. [Of or pertaining to inhumanity and the indifferently cruel, sadistic or barbaric behavior it brings.]
skein	1	noun	A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
ordain	2	verb	(religion) To admit into the ministry, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk, or to authorize as a rabbi.
grain	1	noun	(uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
pane	1	noun	An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc.
terrain	2	noun	An area of land or its particular features.
rain	1	noun	(meteorology) Condensed water falling from a cloud.
plane	1	noun	An airplane; an aeroplane.
lane	1	noun	(used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
stain	1	noun	A discolored spot or area caused by spillage or other contact with certain fluids or substances.
daisy chain	3	noun	A garland to be worn on the head, made (usually as a pastime) by sewing or otherwise linking the stems of the flowers of daisies (Bellis perennis) into a ring.
urbane	2		Of a person (usually a man): having refined manners; courteous, polite, suave.
in vain	2		(idiomatic) Without success or a result; ending in failure.
bain	1	noun	(obsolete) A bath.

🎵 Near Rhymes for "Detain"

37 words

These words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.

Word	Syllables	Type	Definition
proclaim	2	verb	To announce or declare.
unveil	2	verb	(transitive) To remove a veil from; to uncover; to reveal something hidden.
exclaim	2	verb	(intransitive) To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.
terminate	3	verb	(transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
evade	2	verb	(transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.
survey	2	noun	A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items, in order to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality.
acquaint	2	verb	(transitive, followed by with) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) know; to make familiar.
parade	2	noun	An organized display of a group of people, particularly
afraid	2		Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
eliminate	4	verb	(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
tirade	2	noun	A long, angry or violent speech.
degrade	2	verb	(transitive) To lower in value or social position.
defame	2	verb	To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage.
arrange	2	verb	(transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.
relay	2	noun	(sports) A competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action.
detail	2	noun	An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
incarcerate	4	verb	(chiefly US, transitive) To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
celebrate	3	verb	(transitive or intransitive) To engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event.
reclaim	2	verb	(transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
decorate	3	verb	(ambitransitive) To improve the appearance of an interior of, as a house, room, or office.
exaggerate	4	verb	To overstate, to describe more than the fact.
away	2	verb	From a place, hence.
awake	2	verb	Not asleep; conscious.
erase	2	verb	(transitive) To remove (markings or information).
deflate	2	verb	(transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
became	2	verb	(copulative, rather formal, followed by an adjective or a noun) begin to be; turn into (often with permanent states).
cliche	2	noun	Alternative form of cliché. [(rhetoric) Something, most often a phrase or expression, that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost. A trite saying; a platitude.]
detained	2		Held in custody or confinement.
email	2	noun	(uncountable) A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet Message Format.
inflame	2	verb	(transitive, figuratively) To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
disobey	3	verb	(intransitive) To refuse or (intentionally) fail to obey.
enslave	2	verb	(transitive) To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.
premeditate	4	verb	(ambitransitive) To meditate, consider, or plan beforehand; to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand.
replay	2	noun	A repeat or subsequent playing of some or all of something which was previously broadcast or performed, or a playing of something which was recorded, such as a live event or a television broadcast, the gameplay of a computer game, etc.
rename	2	verb	(transitive) To give a new name to.
delay	2	noun	(transitive) To put off until a later time; to defer.
hardaway	3	noun	A surname.