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Restrain
RESTRA'IN, v.t. [L. restringo; re and stringo, to strain. The letter g appears from the participle to be casual; stringo, for strigo. Hence strictus, strict, stricture. If the two letters st are removed, the word rigo coincides exactly, in primary sense, with L. rego, rectus, right, and the root of reach, stretch, straight.]
1. To hold back; to check; to hold from action, proceeding or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by an interposing obstacle. Thus we restrain a horse by a bridle; we restrain cattle from wandering by fences; we restrain water by dams and dikes; we restrain men from crimes and trespasses by laws; we restrain young people, when we can, by arguments or counsel; we restrain men and their passions; we restrain the elements; we attempt to restrain vice, but not always with success.
2. To repress; to keep in awe; as, to restrain offenders.
3. To suppress; to hinder or repress; as, to restrain excess.
4. To abridge; to hinder from unlimited enjoyment; as, to restrain one of his pleasure or of his liberty.
5. To limit; to confine.
Not only a metaphysical or natural, but a moral universality is also to be restrained by a part of the predicate.
6. To withhold; to forbear.
Thou restrainest prayer before God. Job 15.
restrain appears in definitions for these words:
Abandon Abandoned Abandoning Abridgment Abstain Adverb Ahead Allowance Antemetic Arrest Arrested Arrester Astringent Audacious Audacity Band Bandage Banking Bar Barred Bear Behave Beware Bind Binding Blunting Bolt Bondage Bondservant Bound Bounded Bounding Brank Break Bridle Bridled Bridler Bridling Bring Brook Call Can Canonical Castigation Causey Chain Chastise Check Checked Checker Checking Checkless Checkt Clip Clog Coaction Coactive Coarct Coarctation Coerce Coerced Coercible Coercing Coercion Coercive Commit Commodiously Con Conceal Conclude Conditional Confine Confined Confinement Confiner Confining Constrain Constrainable Constrained Constraint Contain Content Continency Continent Controll Controllable Controlled Controller Controlment Could Cramp Cramped Cry Curb Curbed Curbing Custody Dam Damp Delay Deliver Deliverance Delivery Demoniac Denial Derogation Detain Detained Detaining Detention Diet Discountenance Disimpark Disorderly Disport Dispunishable Dissolute Dissolutely District Durance Duress Emancipate Emancipator Embargo Embargoing Enchain Enchained Energetic Enormity Escape Exempt Expatiate Expatiating Fence Fetter Fettering Fetterless Fierce Forbear Forbearance Forbearing Forwardness Free Freed Freefooted Freeing Freely Freewill General Go Govern Governed Governing Government Grace Head Headstrong Hinderance Hold Holdback Holding Horn Humor Idiotism Immanacle Immodest Impatient Impotent Impound Impounding Imprison Imprisoned Imprisonment Inconditonate Incontinence Incontinent Incontinently Incontrollable Indulge Indulgence Indulgent Inhibit Inhibited Inhibiting Inhibition Intemperance Intemperate Interdict Keep Keeping King Large Latitudinarian Law Lay Leather-seller Let Liberate Liberated Liberating Liberation Libertine Liberty License Licentiousness Ligament Limbo Limit Limitable Limitation Limited Lock Loose Loosed Loosely Loosen Luxurious Madhouse Man Manacle Melancholy Metaphor Millenium Mode Moderate Moderation Moderator Modest Monogamy Mortify Mortifying Mouthed Muzzle Negative Non-observance Offend Open Opposition Out Overawe Precipitation Precisian Press Prison Prisoned Prisoner Proclivity Provisor Pullback Qualifier Qualify Qualifying Quarantine Quarantined Quodlibetical Rage Ramble Rampant Range Rebuke Rebuked Rebuker Reclaim Refrain Refrained Refrenation Rein Reinless Relaxation Release Releasing Repress Repression Repressive Rescue Rescuing Reserve Reserved Restrain Restrainable Restrainedly Restrainer Restraining Restraint Restrict Restriction Restrictive Retention Riot Rule Ruly Runaway Ruthless Saturanlian Scope Seal Self-restrained Self-restraining Sell Shackles Shorten Shut Side Silence Slipstring Specht Spite Spurn-water Stanched Stay Stayer Steer Stifle Still Stint Stintance Stinted Stinting Stipulate Stop Styptic Styptical Sumptuary Suppress Tail Tedder Temperance Theriac Titter Tolerate Tolerated Tolerating Tye Tyed Unawed Unbalanced Unbay Unchaining Unchastised Unchecked Unconfinable Unconfined Uncontrollable Uncontrollably Uncontrolled Uncontrolledly Uncurbed Under Undeterred Unfetter Unfettered Unfettering Ungovernable Ungovernably Ungoverned Unlimited Unmanageable Unprincipled Unreined Unrestrainable Unrestrained Unrestraint Unruliness Unruly Unshackle Unshackled Unshackling Voluntary Wanton Wantoning Wantonly Wantonness Withhold Withholding Yoke
Abandon Abandoned Abandoning Abridgment Abstain Adverb Ahead Allowance Antemetic Arrest Arrested Arrester Astringent Audacious Audacity Band Bandage Banking Bar Barred Bear Behave Beware Bind Binding Blunting Bolt Bondage Bondservant Bound Bounded Bounding Brank Break Bridle Bridled Bridler Bridling Bring Brook Call Can Canonical Castigation Causey Chain Chastise Check Checked Checker Checking Checkless Checkt Clip Clog Coaction Coactive Coarct Coarctation Coerce Coerced Coercible Coercing Coercion Coercive Commit Commodiously Con Conceal Conclude Conditional Confine Confined Confinement Confiner Confining Constrain Constrainable Constrained Constraint Contain Content Continency Continent Controll Controllable Controlled Controller Controlment Could Cramp Cramped Cry Curb Curbed Curbing Custody Dam Damp Delay Deliver Deliverance Delivery Demoniac Denial Derogation Detain Detained Detaining Detention Diet Discountenance Disimpark Disorderly Disport Dispunishable Dissolute Dissolutely District Durance Duress Emancipate Emancipator Embargo Embargoing Enchain Enchained Energetic Enormity Escape Exempt Expatiate Expatiating Fence Fetter Fettering Fetterless Fierce Forbear Forbearance Forbearing Forwardness Free Freed Freefooted Freeing Freely Freewill General Go Govern Governed Governing Government Grace Head Headstrong Hinderance Hold Holdback Holding Horn Humor Idiotism Immanacle Immodest Impatient Impotent Impound Impounding Imprison Imprisoned Imprisonment Inconditonate Incontinence Incontinent Incontinently Incontrollable Indulge Indulgence Indulgent Inhibit Inhibited Inhibiting Inhibition Intemperance Intemperate Interdict Keep Keeping King Large Latitudinarian Law Lay Leather-seller Let Liberate Liberated Liberating Liberation Libertine Liberty License Licentiousness Ligament Limbo Limit Limitable Limitation Limited Lock Loose Loosed Loosely Loosen Luxurious Madhouse Man Manacle Melancholy Metaphor Millenium Mode Moderate Moderation Moderator Modest Monogamy Mortify Mortifying Mouthed Muzzle Negative Non-observance Offend Open Opposition Out Overawe Precipitation Precisian Press Prison Prisoned Prisoner Proclivity Provisor Pullback Qualifier Qualify Qualifying Quarantine Quarantined Quodlibetical Rage Ramble Rampant Range Rebuke Rebuked Rebuker Reclaim Refrain Refrained Refrenation Rein Reinless Relaxation Release Releasing Repress Repression Repressive Rescue Rescuing Reserve Reserved Restrain Restrainable Restrainedly Restrainer Restraining Restraint Restrict Restriction Restrictive Retention Riot Rule Ruly Runaway Ruthless Saturanlian Scope Seal Self-restrained Self-restraining Sell Shackles Shorten Shut Side Silence Slipstring Specht Spite Spurn-water Stanched Stay Stayer Steer Stifle Still Stint Stintance Stinted Stinting Stipulate Stop Styptic Styptical Sumptuary Suppress Tail Tedder Temperance Theriac Titter Tolerate Tolerated Tolerating Tye Tyed Unawed Unbalanced Unbay Unchaining Unchastised Unchecked Unconfinable Unconfined Uncontrollable Uncontrollably Uncontrolled Uncontrolledly Uncurbed Under Undeterred Unfetter Unfettered Unfettering Ungovernable Ungovernably Ungoverned Unlimited Unmanageable Unprincipled Unreined Unrestrainable Unrestrained Unrestraint Unruliness Unruly Unshackle Unshackled Unshackling Voluntary Wanton Wantoning Wantonly Wantonness Withhold Withholding Yoke
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