RESTRAIN

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

Etymology

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• (control or keep in check): check, limit, restrain, withstrain; See also curb

• (deprive of liberty): confine, detain

Anagrams

• 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