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restrain

Verbs

• (v) keep under control; keep in check
  • suppress a smile
  • Keep your temper
  • keep your cool
  keep back, hold back, keep,
• (v) place limits on (extent or access)
  • restrict the use of this parking lot
  • limit the time you can spend with your friends
  confine, limit, throttle, trammel, bound, restrict,
• (v) 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
  confine, hold,
• (v) hold back constrain, cumber, encumber,
• (v) to compel or deter by or as if by threats intimidate,

Synonyms

keep back hold back keep confine limit throttle trammel bound restrict hold constrain cumber encumber intimidate

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