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
12 March 2025
(noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
