restrained
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Restrain \Re*strain"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Restrained}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Restraining}.] [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.
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Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature
Gives way to in repose! --Shak.
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2. To draw back toghtly, as a rein. [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge.
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Though they two were committed, at least restrained
of their liberty. --Clarendon.
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4. To limit; to confine; to restrict. --Trench.
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Not only a metaphysical or natural, but a moral,
universality also is to be restrained by a part of
the predicate. --I. Watts.
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5. To withhold; to forbear.
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Thou restrained prayer before God. --Job. xv. 4.
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Syn: To check; hinder; stop; withhold; repress; curb;
suppress; coerce; restrict; limit; confine.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
156 Moby Thesaurus words for "restrained":
Attic, Ciceronian, Olympian, aesthetic, aloof, arrested, artistic,
aseptic, backward, barred, bashful, beleaguered, beset, besieged,
blank, blockaded, bound, bridled, cabined, caged, chaste,
chastened, chilled, chilly, choice, classic, clear, cloistered,
closed-in, cold, confined, constrained, controlled, cool, cooped,
cordoned, cordoned off, corralled, cramped, cribbed, curbed,
detached, direct, discreet, distant, easy, elegant, enclosed,
excellent, expressionless, fenced, finished, forbidding, frigid,
frosty, frugal, graceful, gracile, guarded, hedged, hemmed, hushed,
icy, immured, impassive, impersonal, imprisoned, in check,
in control, in good taste, in hand, in leading strings,
in remission, inaccessible, incarcerated, incommunicable,
inhibited, introverted, jailed, leaguered, limited, limpid, lucid,
measured, mewed, moderate, modest, natural, neat, noncommittal,
of choice, of quality, offish, on leash, paled, pellucid, penned,
pent-up, perspicuous, plain, pleasing, polished, pure, quarantined,
quelled, quiet, railed, reasonable, refined, remote, removed,
repressed, reserved, retarded, reticent, retiring, round,
shrinking, shut-in, simple, slowed down, sober, softened, sparing,
stable, standoff, standoffish, stinting, straightforward, subdued,
suppressed, tasteful, tasty, temperate, tempered, terse, trim,
unaffable, unaffected, unapproachable, uncongenial,
undemonstrative, under control, under discipline, under restraint,
understated, unexcessive, unexpansive, unextreme, ungenial,
unlabored, unobtrusive, walled, walled-in, well-chosen,
withdrawn
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