restrain
Verb
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To close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement (synset 201304044)
"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"subtypes:
- bind, tie down, tie up, truss - secure with or as if with ropes
- fetter, shackle - restrain with fetters
- enchain - restrain or bind with chains
- pinion, shackle - bind the arms of
- impound, pound - place or shut up in a pound
- pound, pound up - shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
- fold, pen up - confine in a fold, like sheep
- ground - confine or restrict to the ground
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Restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult (synset 201303637)
is a type of: bound, confine, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel - place limits on (extent or amount or access)subtypes:
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Prevent (someone or something) from doing something (synset 202456292)
"security guards restrained the reporter from throwing another shoe"
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Prevent the action or expression of (synset 200233707)
"hold back your anger"; "keep your cool"; "she struggled to restrain her impatience at the delays"subtypes:
- hold - keep from exhaling or expelling
- blink, blink away, wink - keep back by blinking
- harness, rein, rule - keep in check
- baffle, regulate - restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.)
- swallow - keep from expressing
- confine - prevent from leaving or from being removed
- check, contain, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate - lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
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