restrain
restrain is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To draw back toghtly, as a rein.
- transitive verb. To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge.
- transitive verb. To limit; to confine; to restrict.
- transitive verb. To withhold; to forbear.
- verb. place limits on (extent or access)
"restrict the use of this parking lot"
"limit the time you can spend with your friends"
- verb. hold back
- verb. to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement
"This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"
"About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"
- verb. to compel or deter by or as if by threats
- verb. keep under control; keep in check
"suppress a smile"
"Keep your temper"
Synonyms
bound, confine, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel, constrain, cumber, encumber, hold, intimidate, keep
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in restrain:
retrains, strainer, terrains, trainers, transire
Common word forms
restrains, restrained, restrainer, restraining, restrainable
Words from these letters
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