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Constrain
CONSTRAIN, v.t. [L., to strain, to bind. See Strain.] In a general sense, to strain; to press; to urge; to drive; to exert force, physical or moral, either in urging to action or in restraining it. Hence,
1. To compel or force; to urge with irresistible power, or with a power sufficient to produce the effect.
The spirit within me constraineth me. Job 32.
I was constrained to appeal to Caesar. Acts 28.
For the love of Christ constraineth us. 2 Cor 5.
2. To confine by fore; to restrain from escape or action; to repress.
My sire in caves constrains the winds.
3. To hold by force; to press; to confine.
How the strait stays the slender waist constrain.
4. To constringe; to bind.
When winter frosts constrain the field with cold.
5. To tie fast; to bind; to chain; to confine.
He binds in chains the drowsy prophet, and his limbs constrains.
6. To necessitate.
Did fate or we the adulterous act constrain?
7. To force; to ravish. [Not used.]
8. To produce in opposition to nature; as a constrained voice; constrained notes.
constrain appears in definitions for these words:
A All-constraining Bind Coerce Coercing Coercive Coercively Compel Compellable Compelled Compeller Compelling Compulsative Compulsatively Compulsion Compulsive Compulsorily Compulsory Constrain Constrainable Constrainedly Constrainer Constraint Constrict Constringe Convince Driven Duress Ease Easiness Easy Enforce Enforcement Enforcer Enforcing Familiarly Force Forcedly Forcer Formal Frankly Freedom Freely Hard Imposition Make Oblige Obliged Obliging Press Pressed Pressing Pressure Stiff Stiffness Strain Strait-laced Sue Suspicious Tye Unconstrained Unconstrainedly Unconstraint Uneasy Unforced
A All-constraining Bind Coerce Coercing Coercive Coercively Compel Compellable Compelled Compeller Compelling Compulsative Compulsatively Compulsion Compulsive Compulsorily Compulsory Constrain Constrainable Constrainedly Constrainer Constraint Constrict Constringe Convince Driven Duress Ease Easiness Easy Enforce Enforcement Enforcer Enforcing Familiarly Force Forcedly Forcer Formal Frankly Freedom Freely Hard Imposition Make Oblige Obliged Obliging Press Pressed Pressing Pressure Stiff Stiffness Strain Strait-laced Sue Suspicious Tye Unconstrained Unconstrainedly Unconstraint Uneasy Unforced
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