Words Like RESTRAIN
    
   We have put together a list of words that are similar to RESTRAIN.
    
    
    
        
            38 Alternative Words Similar to restrain
   
            
               
            
            
        
       
    
    
        6 examples of restrain
           
        
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        keep your cool
    
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        Keep your temper
    
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        limit the time you can spend with your friends
    
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        The terrorists held the journalists for ransom
    
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        The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center
    
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        About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade
    
       
    
    
        10 definitions of restrain
           
        
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        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.
    
    
    
 
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        To draw back toghtly, as a rein.
    
    
    
 
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        To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge.
    
    
    
 
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        To limit; to confine; to restrict.
    
    
    
 
    5
    
        To withhold; to forbear.
    
    
    
 
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        keep under control; keep in check
    
    
    
 
    8
    
        place limits on (extent or access)
    
    
    
 
    9
    
        to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement
    
    
    
 
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        to compel or deter by or as if by threats