Dictionary entry details
• RESTRAIN (verb)
Meaning:
Keep under control; keep in check
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
restrain; keep back; hold back; suppress; keep
Context examples:
suppress a smile / Keep your temper / keep your cool
Hypernyms (to "restrain" is one way to...):
keep; prevent (prevent from doing something or being in a certain state)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "restrain"):
bottle up; suppress (control and refrain from showing; of emotions)
quench (electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device)
confine (prevent from leaving or from being removed)
hold (keep from exhaling or expelling)
check; contain; control; curb; hold; hold in; moderate (lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Meaning:
Place limits on (extent or access)
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
throttle; limit; confine; restrain; trammel; bound; restrict
Context examples:
restrict the use of this parking lot / limit the time you can spend with your friends
Hypernyms (to "restrain" is one way to...):
check; contain; control; curb; hold; hold in; moderate (lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "restrain"):
reduce; tighten (narrow or limit)
constrain; cumber; encumber; restrain (hold back)
inhibit (limit the range or extent of)
clamp down; crack down (repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable))
constrain; stiffen; tighten; tighten up (restrict)
cramp; halter; hamper; strangle (prevent the progress or free movement of)
baffle; regulate (check the emission of (sound))
harness; rein; rule (keep in check)
mark off; mark out (set boundaries to and delimit)
draw a line; draw the line (reasonably object (to) or set a limit (on))
gate (restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment)
tie (limit or restrict to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
To close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
restrain; hold; confine
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms (to "restrain" is one way to...):
disable; disenable; incapacitate (make unable to perform a certain action)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "restrain"):
ground (confine or restrict to the ground)
fold; pen up (confine in a fold, like sheep)
pound; pound up (shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits)
impound; pound (place or shut up in a pound)
pinion; shackle (bind the arms of)
enchain (restrain or bind with chains)
fetter; shackle (restrain with fetters)
bind; tie down; tie up; truss (secure with or as if with ropes)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They want to restrain the prisoners
Meaning:
Hold back
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
constrain; cumber; encumber; restrain
Hypernyms (to "restrain" is one way to...):
bound; confine; limit; restrain; restrict; throttle; trammel (place limits on (extent or access))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "restrain"):
clog (impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden)
curb (keep to the curb)
bridle (put a bridle on)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
To compel or deter by or as if by threats
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
intimidate; restrain
Hypernyms (to "restrain" is one way to...):
discourage (deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged)
"Restrain" entails doing...:
warn (notify of danger, potential harm, or risk)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "restrain"):
dash; daunt; frighten away; frighten off; pall; scare; scare away; scare off (cause to lose courage)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
