RESTRAIN
Definition:
- [verb] keep under control; keep in check; "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool"
Synonyms: suppress, keep, keep back, hold back
- [verb] place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
Synonyms: restrict, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
- [verb] to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "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"
Synonyms: confine, hold
- [verb] hold back
Synonyms: encumber, cumber, constrain
- [verb] to compel or deter by or as if by threats
Synonyms: intimidate
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Related Words:
- hold
- confine
- quench
- bottle up, suppress
- control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate
- reduce, tighten
- tie
- gate
- draw the line, draw a line
- mark off, mark out
- rule, harness, rein
- baffle, regulate
- hamper, halter, cramp, strangle
- stiffen, tighten, tighten up, constrain
- clamp down, crack down
- inhibit
- restrain, encumber, cumber, constrain
- tie down, tie up, bind, truss
- fetter, shackle
- enchain
- pinion, shackle
- impound, pound
- pound, pound up
- pen up, fold
- ground
- bridle
- curb
- clog
- daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare
