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Meaning restrain meaning

What does restrain mean?
Definitions in simple English

restrain Verb

— If you restrain someone, you prevent him from moving or from doing something.

restrain

— verb (= keep) keep under control; keep in check suppress a smile Keep your temper keep your cool — verb (= restrict, limit) place limits on (extent or access) restrict the use of this parking lot limit the time you can spend with your friends — verb (= hold) 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 — verb hold back — verb (= intimidate) to compel or deter by or as if by threats

Synonyms restrain synonyms

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restrain English » English

control check curb hold back suppress repress confine stop govern restrict hold bind subdue inhibit detain limit hinder rule prevent obstruct impede contain constrain withhold bridle arrest retain rein keep back imprison trammel tie separate manacle hold down handcuff fetter catch brake tie down stifle stem squelch seize immobilize halt forbid fasten direct chasten

Topics restrain topics

What do people use restrain to talk about?
Physical actions Move Pursue

Prevent from moving
Social behavior Law Punish

Imprison
States Time Speed

Slow
Language and thought

Emotion
Social behavior Behavior

Self-controlled

Conjugation restrain conjugation

How do you conjugate restrain?

restrain · verb

Examples restrain examples

How do I use restrain in a sentence?

Simple sentences

You should learn to restrain yourself.
I couldn't restrain a smile.
He could no longer restrain himself.
He tried to restrain his anger.
It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me, and I think that is kind of important.
Tom, please restrain yourself.
Tom tried to restrain his anger.
I couldn't restrain myself.
Tom couldn't restrain himself.
Tom could no longer restrain himself.
He could not restrain his excitement.
He was so funny at the party that I simply couldn't restrain my laughter.
Tom couldn't restrain his anger.
Restrain your impulses.
It was difficult to restrain myself from smothering Tom.
Sometimes, the best response is to restrain yourself from responding.
They're trying to restrain him.

Movie subtitles

Restrain a fire serpent who wants to crush your treasure.
Restrain him!
They are more natural than men who have nothing to restrain.
First this little planet and its winds and waves. and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him.
To listen to music played on a koto and to restrain myself, even in love.
Merciful powers, restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature gives way to in repose!
The guards can no longer restrain the rioters.
I can scarcely restrain my curiosity. how these lovely stones come to surround such a lovely neck.
Helen Mary, I beg you to restrain him.
If you can't restrain yourself, I hold you in contempt.
Restrain yourself a little!
Restrain yourself, my lord.
Restrain Chief Justice Holmes for a minute.
Do not try to restrain myself, I beg you.
Salvago ought to restrain his urge for donation for a long time.
My Lord, the revolt is growing. The guards can no longer restrain the rioters.
Kindly restrain your humanitarian instincts.
But HoInstein. Restrain yourself.
Lord, restrain me.
Restrain yourself!
I restrain you no longer. And I offer 1,000 talents of gold for his head.
That should restrain themselves quickly and not grow too wealthy.
I think that my annoyance with little old ladies who mumble the Pater Nester and old people who restrain the church's progress. yes, I think that annoyance is specifically Christian.
But until you know exactly what it says, you'd better restrain your lust for power and your ambition.
In fact, it was all we could do to restrain him and others from taking action.
When we're no longer here to restrain him who knows what crimes even murder.
I shall first of all break these chains To prove to you that nothing Can restrain me!
But nothing can restrain me!
You can't restrain him when he's in the mood.
It has a force field strong enough to restrain a herd of elephants so I wouldn't waste your energy trying to escape, hmm?
Security two alert. Find and restrain Lieutenant Kevin Riley.
But I can restrain myself.
An example of how arrogance and ignorance restrain man's progress.
Locate and restrain Mr. Spock.
Gentlemen, restrain!
Please, Mr. Scott, restrain your leaps of illogic.
You must learn to restrain yourself.
Merciful powers, restrain the thoughts that nature gives way to in repose.

News and current affairs

The attempt to restrain the growth of debt does serve to concentrate the mind - it forces countries to focus on priorities and assess values.
They would rather sell their oil and invest later, when prices are higher, so they restrain increases in supply.
When governments have taken similar steps, they usually have done so after - or at least alongside - the provision of financial injections and efforts to restrain demand.
In their view, capital punishment serves at least to restrain the homicidal leanings of human beings.
Maybe capitalism works better when skeptics restrain its excesses than when true believers are writing, interpreting, judging, and executing the rules of the game.
Any rejectionist policies of Hamas or any terrorist group will be overcome by an overall Arab commitment to restrain further violence and to promote the well-being of the Palestinian people.
But in an interconnected world, isn't it possible for the international community to do more to restrain tyrants in order to ensure a more stable global environment?
Moreover, the Bush administration combined its policies with an extraordinary reluctance to veto anything coming out of Congress, and, after the year or two that it took for this to become obvious, an inability to restrain Congress at all.
Undervalued exchange rates are only one of the policies that countries use to boost exports and restrain imports, so that they run trade surpluses, while their trading partners (including the US) run deficits.
In a money-obsessed society, the only way to restrain this proclivity is by externally imposed sanctions.
On the whole, Obama has tried to restrain the warmongers, yet he has given in to them frequently - not only by relying on weaponized drones, but also by waging covert wars in Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and elsewhere.
If India's demand is acceptable, why should other technologically advanced NPT signatories, such as Brazil, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Japan - to say nothing of less responsible nations - continue to restrain themselves?
Increasingly, free expression of opinion does not influence or restrain how government behaves.
The advanced countries, which can best afford to restrain long-term growth, must lead by example.
Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and leading them to restrain spending further.
And, even as the US and its allies attempt to restrain Iran, its regime continues to goad Israel, calling for its extinction and exporting military wares to its Lebanese and Gazan adversaries.
For starters, it should monitor and restrain sensitive exports to avoid making the security situation more dangerous for the US.
Strangely, it may be easier to gain confidence than to restrain it.
When inflation is low, the top priority should be to reduce unemployment to the lowest possible level; and there is no compelling reason for monetary policy to restrain job creation or GDP growth until excessive inflation becomes an imminent danger.

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