Synonym: arrest, check, confine, control, curb, hold back, impede, inhibit, keep down, limit, restrict, retard, smother, stifle, suppress. Antonym: impel. Similar words: unrestrained, strain, strained, constrain, constraint, extraterrestrial, train, by train. Meaning: [rɪ'streɪn] v. 1. keep under control; keep in check 2. place limits on (extent or access) 3. to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement 4. hold back 5. to compel or deter by or as if by threats.
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(31) It took four officers to restrain Wilson before he could be handcuffed.
(32) In an effort to restrain himself, he tried to imagine things in the worst possible light.
(33) Another difficulty in the Gouriet case was that the applicant sought an injunction to restrain a threatened breach of the criminal law.
(34) Technological gains and slower projected growth in energy-intensive industries will restrain the rate of increase, the department says.
(35) The revised guidelines are expected to avoid giving care workers specific advice on how to physically restrain absconders.
(36) If we fail to develop emotional intelligence, or cannot control or restrain our emotions, we will lose our intellectual ability to think, reason and live rationally and intelligently. Dr T.P.Chia
(37) Beate scratches, kicks and wiggles as the two boys try to restrain her.
(38) The police tried to restrain the marchers and arrest the leaders.
(39) The plaintiff's sought an injunction to restrain R Co's directors from recommending the offer.
(40) Instead, they were straining at the bits, and the handler had to restrain them.
(41) The courts have invented new laws, as in the new liabilities to restrain picketing during the miners' strike.
(42) Avoid getting too close to them and certainly don't try to wrestle with them or restrain them.
(43) They were businessmen and found it difficult to restrain their natural impulse to boosterism.
(44) Such colleagues tend to be great achievers, but you have to restrain their worst excesses.
(45) Try to restrain from being the centre of attention by constantly talking.
(46) That instinct which is said to restrain other animals from killing and devouring their own species we need not attribute to him.
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(47) How could such a one as Hatton restrain himself from making a splash?
(48) Maggie began to worry that they might actually physically restrain her.
(49) Animals also restrain their aggression because it is disadvantageous to fight stronger opponents - it is better to run away.
(50) They can not therefore meet the needs of cities that are searching for a method to restrain traffic over large areas.
(51) Roger stepped forward and Martin put out his arm to restrain him.
(52) The new artistic climate found Minton striving to restrain his romanticism beneath taut design.
(53) He got out his knife but stabbed to death his brother, who was attempting to restrain him.
(54) There is a further reason why it is difficult to restrain the growth of the money supply over the longer term.
(55) A passing off action will lie to restrain the use of any firm name which breaches this rule.
(56) A very sharp increase might have persuaded some Fed officials to push for higher rates to restrain inflation.
(57) An injunction to restrain them from persuading their members not to play there was refused.
(58) Janet helps the nurses, who have to tie the man down to restrain him.
(59) It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. Seneca
(60) But the writing and direction are strong enough to restrain him.
More similar words: unrestrained, strain, strained, constrain, constraint, extraterrestrial, train, by train, trainer, training, straitened, straighten, restrict, straightforward, restriction, rain, brain, rainy, drain, grains, grained, terrain, rainbow, rainfall, raining, trait, trail, trailer, portrait, strap.