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Restraint (disambiguation); Restrain; Restraint (film)
restrain
(restrains, restraining, restrained)
1.
If you restrain someone, you stop them from doing what they intended or wanted to do, usually by using your physical strength.
Wally gripped my arm, partly to restrain me and partly to reassure me...
VERB: V n
2.
If you restrain an emotion or you restrain yourself from doing something, you prevent yourself from showing that emotion or doing what you wanted or intended to do.
She was unable to restrain her desperate anger...
Gladys wanted to ask, 'Aren't you angry with him?' But she restrained herself from doing so.
VERB: V n, V n from -ing/n
3.
To restrain something that is growing or increasing means to prevent it from getting too large.
The radical 500-day plan was very clear on how it intended to try to restrain inflation...
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VERB: V n
Restrain
·vt To draw back toghtly, as a rein.
III. Restrain ·vt To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to Abridge.
V. Restrain ·vt To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to Curb.
restrain
v. a.
1.
Check, curb, bridle, repress, suppress, withhold, constrain, coerce, keep, hold.
2.
Hold back, hold in, keep under, check.
3.
Hinder, prevent, debar, bar, stop, prohibit, interdict.
4.
Restrict, confine, abridge, hinder, circumscribe, narrow.
5.
Withhold, forbear.
Examples of use of restrain
1. Washington has queried how it could restrain the Islamist group.
2. And why doesn‘t the prime minister restrain his defense minister?
3. Powerful forces restrain the would–be hero from taking chances.
4. "You can‘t physically restrain a person from driving," he said.
5. The minute you try to restrain freedom, people revolt.