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Restrain   /ristrˈeɪn/   Listen
Restrain

verb
(past & past part. restrained; pres. part. restraining)
1.
Keep under control; keep in check.  Synonyms: hold back, keep, keep back.  "Keep your temper" , "Keep your cool"
2.
Place limits on (extent or access).  Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel.  "Limit the time you can spend with your friends"
3.
To close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement.  Synonyms: confine, hold.  "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade" , "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center" , "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"
4.
Hold back.  Synonyms: constrain, cumber, encumber.
5.
To compel or deter by or as if by threats.  Synonym: intimidate.



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"Restrain" Quotes from Famous Books



... the very elect." But "the more they afflicted them the more they multiplied and grew;" so that in a few years the place became "too strait for them." Even members of the mob of one meeting would be "awakened" while listening for something to mock, and scarcely able to restrain themselves, while with their comrades they would come early to the next meeting, get fastened in with the pious and the penitent, and, making humble confession, seek and find salvation, and become lively members of the church they ...
— Elizabeth: The Disinherited Daugheter • E. Ben Ez-er

... returned the Chancellor. "I should have made no bones about the reason; for I've found that the best way with Leopold is to blurt out the whole truth, and fight him—my experience against his will. If advice and warning hadn't sufficed to restrain him from insulting the girl who is to be his wife, and injuring the reputation of the girl who never can be, I would have devised some expedient to thwart him, for his own good. I'm not a man to give up when I ...
— The Princess Virginia • C. N. Williamson

... thither, this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain determined to keep open a market and where MEN should be bought & sold he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this determining to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold: execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various

... all that I have now offered may be of very little weight to restrain this enormity, this aggravated iniquity. However, I shall still have the satisfaction of having entered my private protest against a practice which, in my opinion, bids that God, who is the God and Father of the Gentiles unconverted to Christianity, most daring and bold defiance, and spurns ...
— The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the - Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) • Thomas Clarkson

... made a sign to De Chemerant to restrain his indignation; he said to the Gascon: "Will you reveal what you know relative to James, Duke of Monmouth? Will you tell us through what chain of events you came to ...
— A Romance of the West Indies • Eugene Sue


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