CONTAIN
Definition:
- [verb] include or contain; have as a component; "A totally new idea is comprised in this paper"; "The record contains many old songs from the 1930's"
Synonyms: incorporate, comprise
- [verb] contain or hold; have within; "The jar carries wine"; "The canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water"
Synonyms: hold, bear, carry
- [verb] lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "moderate your alcohol intake"; "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger"
Synonyms: control, hold in, hold, check, curb, moderate
- [verb] be divisible by; "24 contains 6"
- [verb] be capable of holding or containing; "This box won't take all the items"; "The flask holds one gallon"
Synonyms: take, hold
- [verb] hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in Sout East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
Synonyms: check, turn back, arrest, stop, hold back
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Related Words:
- retain
- surround, environ, encircle, circle, round, ring
- enclose, hold in, confine
- restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
- suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb
- damp
- mortify, subdue, cricify
- deny, abnegate
- restrict
- train
- catch
- bate
- thermostat
- countercheck, counteract
- cut down, cut out
