احتبس doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has an entry for it. Select the entry below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• احتبس Form 8

  8 احتبس احتبس أحتبس ٱحتبس quasi-pass. of حَبَسَهُ; He, or it, was or became, confined, restricted, limited, &c.; and he confined, restricted, limited, &c., himself; (S, A, K;) [as also ; but this latter is probably post-…

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