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Meaning constrain meaning

What does constrain mean?

constrain

— verb (= restrain) hold back — verb (= stiffen, tighten) restrict Tighten the rules stiffen the regulations

Synonyms constrain synonyms

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constrain English » English

force compel coerce oblige restrain repress press tighten up tighten stiffen restrict require necessitate imprison impel hold confine urge thrust strain squeeze push pressure mandate limit impose hold back hinder encumber cumber control assert withhold use compulsion to try to compel torment tie tense tax tauten suppress subdue stress straiten stint stimulate stem squeeze for save regulate

Topics constrain topics

What do people use constrain to talk about?
Language and thought Want Influence

Compel
Language and thought Want Ask permission

Prevent
Social behavior Behavior

Self-controlled

Conjugation constrain conjugation

How do you conjugate constrain?

constrain · verb

Examples constrain examples

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The contract is said to constrain.
Let's constrain ourselves.
Do other considerations constrain you?
Well, anthropologically-speaking, para-militaristic organizations tend to constrain individuality.
Then I just pin the other one to constrain her.
He wanted to make sure that we didn't bring in a whole new set of regulations to constrain the financial sector at that point.
It's pretentious and ugly to want to constrain trees.
The inability to constrain impulsive outbursts.
I assign the team of five operatives to work in a constrain on the mission.
I would your grace would constrain me to tell.
Nothing made by man could constrain Fenrir, so they forged it from the things we cannot see and the things we cannot hear.
The law cannot constrain you.
I need to constrain it, control it. or one day, it will control us.
Because if there is a spirit is present, our sphere of energy would constrain it. Does everyone understand.
If your vows constrain you to be silent to me then mine charge me to tell you what is fitting.
He wanted to make sure that we didn't bring a whole new set of regulations. to constrain the financial sector at that point.
After the murder of the rapper Pavlos Fyssas and the massive protests the establishment is forced to constrain the Golden Dawn.
No conscience is the world can constrain me to kill a man.
All I know is that the hours are long, under these conditions,...and constrain us to beguile them with proceedings which -how shall I say- which may at first sight seem reasonable,..

News and current affairs

If they over-constrain the financial sector, risk may migrate outside the regulatory frontier, where it will be harder to measure and monitor.
This web of contracts - often taken for granted in mainstream economics, to the extent that it becomes almost invisible - embodies the formal and informal rules embedded in the market system that shape and constrain individual and social behavior.
All behave as though they are above the laws that constrain normal citizens.
Even America's vaunted judicial system has failed to constrain obvious abuses.
Above all, will they be vehicles to promote - or, paradoxically, constrain - China's interests?
This, in turn, would further erode banks' balance sheets and constrain credit creation - the sovereign-bank doom loop that we have heard so much about in recent years.
The weak fiscal position will severely constrain whatever government comes to power.
The scale of the penalties is now large enough to have a substantial impact on banks' balance sheets, delay the restoration of their health, and constrain their lending capacity.
As a result, predictions for the United States - where household deleveraging continues to constrain economic growth - have fallen short only modestly.
And turmoil in the Middle East is causing serious economic risks - both there and elsewhere - as geopolitical risk remains high and thus high oil prices will constrain global growth.
This means that they will have to limit China's strategic and military options, even if they cannot constrain its ambitions.
Fortunately, the most significant potential limitations - land, water, and nutrients - seem unlikely to constrain global output excessively in the foreseeable future.
If Germany had wished to constrain its governor's authority in this way, it should have informed the other signatory states prior to doing so.
Exceptionally high public and private debts constrain a country's options and are indisputably associated with slower growth, which in turn makes it difficult to escape a debt trap.
From a regulator's perspective, this is a powerful argument for requiring higher capital to constrain the risk that banks can take on.
The first reason is likely to create a long-term drag on growth: households need to deleverage and save more, which will constrain consumption for years.
This has resulted in stagnating median incomes and rising income inequality, both of which constrain the private-consumption component of aggregate demand.
Meanwhile, House Republicans are preparing their own Fed governance reforms, which would be even more radical - and would likely constrain monetary policy unwisely.
The legacy of the past continually resurfaces to constrain action in the present.
But the Obama administration cannot sign an agreement stating that it will deliberately constrain America's ability to protect itself and its allies from foreign missile attacks.
And even when other factors constrain growth more, they cannot be changed without changing the shape and form of the economy's capital stock.
So, green shoots of stabilization may be replaced by yellow weeds of stagnation if several medium-term factors constrain the global economy's ability to return to sustained growth.
As a result, Pakistan's judiciary, media, and many civil-society organizations are now engaged in attempts not only to keep the soldiers in their barracks, but also to constrain the political establishment's rapacious behavior.
Moreover, the accord does not rule out all nuclear-related research and does not constrain work on missiles.

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