restrain

Definition of restrain in English English dictionary: To restrict or limit; To deprive of liberty; To control or keep in check; {v} to withhold, keep in, curb, suppress; To restrain something that is growing or increasing means to prevent it from getting too large. The radical 500-day plan was very clear on how it intended to try to restrain inflation = check; 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"; {f} curb, hinder; arrest, take away one's liberty; repress, subdue; To withhold; to forbear; To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge; keep under control; keep in check; "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool"; If you restrain someone, you stop them from doing what they intended or wanted to do, usually by using your physical strength. Wally gripped my arm, partly to restrain me and partly to reassure me; keep under control; keep in check; "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool; If you restrain an emotion or you restrain yourself from doing something, you prevent yourself from showing that emotion or doing what you wanted or intended to do. She was unable to restrain her desperate anger Gladys wanted to ask, `Aren't you angry with him?' But she restrained herself from doing so; To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb; to compel or deter by or as if by threats; hold back; To limit; to confine; to restrict; To draw back toghtly, as a rein; place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
restrained: Held back, limited, kept in check or under control
He greeted her for the first time in three years with a restrained embrace.
restrained: Simple past tense and past participle of restrain
He was restrained by the straight jacket.
restraining: Present participle of restrain
restrainer: {n} one who restrains or keeps in
restrained: approval If you describe someone's clothes or the decorations in a house as restrained, you mean that you like them because they are simple and not too brightly-coloured. Her black suit was restrained and expensive
To restrain: cohibit
restrained: prudent; "guarded optimism"
restrained: {s} curbed, hindered; under arrest, deprived of liberty; repressed, subdued
restrained: cool and formal in manner
restrained: Someone who is restrained is very calm and unemotional. In the circumstances he felt he'd been very restrained
restrained: marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes; "moderate in his demands"; "restrained in his response"
restrained: under restraint
restrained: not showy or obtrusive; "clothes in quiet good taste"
restrained: free from ostentation or pretension; "the restrained elegance of the room"
restrained: Past tense of to restrain
restrained: curbed
restrainer: Something that restrains
restrainer: a person who directs and restrains
restrainer: A chemical compound (such as potassium bromide), added to a developer to prevent fogging
restrainer: {i} one who curbs, hinderer; arrester, one who deprives another person of his liberty; repressor, subduer
restrainer: One who, or that which, restrains
restrainer: a person who directs and restrains a chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film
restrainer: a chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film
restrains: third-person singular of restrain
to restrain: keep