restrain, keep, keep back, hold back
(verb) prevent the action or expression of; “hold back your anger”; “keep your cool”; “she struggled to restrain her impatience at the delays”
restrain, encumber, cumber
(verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult
restrain, confine, hold, constrain
(verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free 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
(verb) prevent (someone or something) from doing something; “security guards restrained the reporter from throwing another shoe”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
restrain (third-person singular simple present restrains, present participle restraining, simple past and past participle restrained)
(transitive) To control or keep in check.
(transitive) To deprive of liberty.
(transitive) To restrict or limit.
• (control or keep in check): check, limit, restrain, withstrain; See also curb
• (deprive of liberty): confine, detain
• arrestin, retrains, strainer, terrains, trainers, transire
Source: Wiktionary
Re*strain", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Restrained; p. pr. & vb. n. Restraining.] Etym: [OE. restreinen, F. restreindre, fr. L. restringere, restrictum; pref. re- re- + stringere to draw, bind, or press together. See Strain, v. t., and cf. Restrict.]
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. [Obs.] 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 June 2025
(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; “he commented with typical pungency”; “the bite of satire”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.