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UK
/ɹɪstɹˈeɪn/
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[ US /ɹiˈstɹeɪn/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈstɹeɪn/ ]
VERB
- restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult
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prevent the action or expression of
hold back your anger
keep your cool
she struggled to restrain her impatience at the delays
keep your cool -
prevent (someone or something) from doing something
security guards restrained the reporter from throwing another shoe -
to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
This holds the local until the express passengers change trains
The terrorists held the journalists for ransom
The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center
About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade
How To Use restrain In A Sentence
- He was still very young, especially by Drow standards, but his smile had given way to an expression of restraint, and his little arms and legs had grown long and thick.
- 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
- 'The first principles of commercial activity have retreated to earth's maziest penetralia, where no tides are! is it not so, Skepsey?' said Mr. Fenellan, whose initiative and exuberance in loquency had been restrained by a slight oppression, known to guests; especially to the guest in the earlier process of his magnification and illumination by virtue of a grand old wine; and also when the news he has to communicate may be a stir to unpleasant heaps. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
- The regulation might almost be judged in restraint of trade. Times, Sunday Times
- Its unsparing account of an atrocious crime is offset by admirable dramatic restraint. Times, Sunday Times
- Sure enough, this Heller language has served to protect a remarkable variety of federal gun restrictions challenged since Heller, including bans on gun possession by felons, domestic violence misdemeanants, and persons under restraining orders, bans on sawed-off shotguns and machine guns, laws restricting guns in school zones, post offices, and other public property, and others. Dennis A. Henigan: The Gun Issue Is Back in the Supreme Court: What Does It Mean?
- Liberal proponents of American Values praise the freedom that opens the floodgates to gay marriage and pornography; conservatives, the liberty unleashing that locust plague called unrestrained capitalism; neo-conservatives the license for lying, murderous Machtpolitik. Founding Fathers vs. Church Fathers
- Immediate pressure on peasant living standards was relieved by the abolition of redemption dues and restraint of the tax burden.
- The radical 500-day plan was very clear on how it intended to try to restrain inflation.
- If some extractive natural subsector gets scarce we will just substitute other sectors for it and growth of the whole economy will continue, not into any restraining biospheric envelope, but into sidereal space presumably full of resource-bearing asteriods and friendly highly-evolved aliens eager to teach us how to grow forever into their territory. From a Failed Growth Economy to a Steady-State Economy
