Word Meanings - RESTRAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

restringere, restrictum; pref. re- re- + stringere to draw, bind, or 1. 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;

Additional info about word: RESTRAIN

restringere, restrictum; pref. re- re- + stringere to draw, bind, or 1. 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. Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose! Shak. 2. To draw back toghtly, as a rein. Shak. 3. To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge. Though they two were committed, at least restrained of their liberty. Clarendon. 4. To limit; to confine; to restrict. Trench. Not only a metaphysical or natural, but a moral, universality also is to be restrained by a part of the predicate. I. Watts. 5. To withhold; to forbear. Thou restrained prayer before God. Job. xv. 4. Syn. -- To check; hinder; stop; withhold; repress; curb; suppress; coerce; restrict; limit; confine.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESTRAIN)

• Arrest Seize
• take
• stop
• capture
• withhold
• restrain
• hold
• detain
• apprehend
• Bailie
• Frustrate
• counteract
• disconcert
• elude
• mock
• thwart
• confound
• defeat
• perplex
• upset
• foil
• mar
• balk
• neutralize
• dodge
• counterfoil
• Bind
• Fetter
• engage
• tie
• fasten
• secure
• lace
• twine
• oblige
• compel
• restrict
• BOUND Confine
• limit
• circumscribe
• terminate
• Bridle
• Curb
• govern
• control
• master
• moderate
• compress

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RESTRAIN)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct
• Secure
• promote
• insure
• speed
• advance
• establish
• aid
• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate

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• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• SPERMATICAL
  Spermatic.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• SPECTROGRAPH
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  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• SPECTATORSHIP
  1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak.
• SPECE
  Species; kind. Chaucer.
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• LIMITARIAN
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  One who manages ill.
• SPEECHLESS
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• HOME-BOUND
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  Producing one seed only in a seed pod.
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  Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. "An asper sound." Bacon.
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