Restrains can be categorized as a verb.
Verb |
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| restrain - 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" | ||
| restrain - keep under control; keep in check; "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool" | ||
| restrain - hold back | ||
| restrain - place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends" | ||
| restrain - to compel or deter by or as if by threats |
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| 1. | verb | Here in a vast cavern king Aeolus rules over the struggling winds and howling tempests, and restrains them in prison with fetters. | |
| 2. | verb | They, in the rock reverberant held fast, / moan at the doors. Here, throned aloft, he reigns; / his sceptre calms their rage, their violence restrains: / else earth and sea and all the firmament / the winds together through the void would sweep. | |
| 3. | verb | US and NATO military officers in Kabul say it is too early to say whether Bush’s tough message was instrumental in persuading Musharraf and the ISI to pressure the Taliban to restrain from disrupting the elections. | |
| 4. | verb | You should learn to restrain yourself. | |
| 5. | verb | Before the horse race begins, the jockeys grip the reins tightly to restrain the impatient horses. | |
| 6. | verb | I told Jim to restrain himself from drinking too much. | |
| 7. | verb | I couldn't restrain a smile. | |
| 8. | verb | We tried to restrain him from his reckless action. | |
| 9. | verb | Two police officers tried to restrain him, but he broke away and ran into a nearby house. | |
| 10. | verb | He could no longer restrain himself. | |
| 11. | verb | He could not restrain his excitement. | |
| 12. | verb | He couldn't restrain his excitement. | |
| 13. | verb | He tried to restrain his anger. | |
| 14. | verb | It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me, and I think that is kind of important. | |
| 15. | verb | It would seem that the Chinese can't restrain themselves from speaking English with me, even though they know that I speak Chinese and that I'm not English. |
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| Here in a vast cavern king Aeolus rules over the struggling winds and howling tempests, and restrains them in prison with fetters. | |
| They, in the rock reverberant held fast, / moan at the doors. Here, throned aloft, he reigns; / his sceptre calms their rage, their violence restrains: / else earth and sea and all the firmament / the winds together through the void would sweep. | |
| US and NATO military officers in Kabul say it is too early to say whether Bush’s tough message was instrumental in persuading Musharraf and the ISI to pressure the Taliban to restrain from disrupting the elections. |
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| You should learn to restrain yourself. | |
| Before the horse race begins, the jockeys grip the reins tightly to restrain the impatient horses. | |
| I told Jim to restrain himself from drinking too much. | |
| I couldn't restrain a smile. | |
| We tried to restrain him from his reckless action. | |
| Two police officers tried to restrain him, but he broke away and ran into a nearby house. | |
| He could no longer restrain himself. | |
| He could not restrain his excitement. | |
| He couldn't restrain his excitement. | |
| He tried to restrain his anger. | |
| It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me, and I think that is kind of important. | |
| It would seem that the Chinese can't restrain themselves from speaking English with me, even though they know that I speak Chinese and that I'm not English. | |