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Meanings of restrain in English
Synonyms
Examples for "keep"
Examples for "keep"
1
Good social work needs community safety networks to keep each other safe.
2
Just keep listening; engage with the problem, ask more and more questions.
3
The government will keep introducing measures to help the economy, he said.
4
However, he said high demand would keep values from falling too far.
5
Drain once cool; don't keep in the iced water longer than necessary.
1
However, he could not suppress a faint hope and he listened carefully.
2
Misfortune cannot suppress it; enmity cannot alienate it; temptation cannot enslave it.
3
The second, and this may end next year, was to suppress volatility.
4
It is not to suppress the Irish commissioner, or the French commissioner.
5
Do you work with fact checkers to suppress false news and hoaxes?
1
The only way to keep back brute panic was not to think.
2
Yet I did not know how to keep back the vital question.
3
He could not keep back the break that was in his breath.
4
He could not keep back the words that rose to his tongue.
5
She tried hard to keep back the tears, and rose to go.
1
Environment groups welcomed the decision of states to hold back their approval.
2
She wanted to hold back, afraid to allow such vulnerability in herself.
3
Hoffa said the union was not trying to hold back technological advancements.
4
Utterly lost in the moment, the chief engineer continued to hold back.
5
A video posted on Twitter shows police attempting to hold back demonstrators.
Portuguese
intimidar Usage of restrain in English
1
I said in the trouble of the moment, unable to restrain myself.
2
A senior loyalist source said it would be difficult to restrain militants.
3
Currently teachers can't physically restrain students unless they're a danger to others.
4
Potations do sometimes wake wines; turnips restrain passion; causes necessary to state.
5
But in the end he could not restrain himself and blurted out:
6
Something within made me restrain myself from opening it all the way.
7
But try to restrain your mirth when you see Pappa, all right?
8
McKenna can be heard breathing heavily as deputies work to restrain her.
9
Now that Everett didn't need to restrain Harlan, he could help siphon.
10
He could not restrain the feeling in his voice as he exclaimed:
11
Barely able to restrain himself, Flood looked to Stansfield for some support.
12
Why couldn't they just call on God's strength and simply restrain themselves?
13
Erlendur wanted to let the matter rest there, but couldn't restrain himself.
14
The young ladies were silent; but they could not restrain their sobs.
15
I had to tell him the truth in order to restrain him.
16
Do you think there will be funding issues that restrain the science?
About this term
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Restrain through the time
Restrain across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common
Ireland
Less common