restrain
/ɹɪˈstɹeɪn/ verb C1- To control or keep in check.
- To deprive of liberty.
- To restrict or limit. · He was restrained by the straitjacket.
He/she/it restrains · Past restrained · Past participle restrained · -ing form restraining
Verb forms
- Base form
- restrain
- He/she/it
- restrains
- Past
- restrained
- Past participle
- restrained
- -ing form
- restraining
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Her father, contented with laughing at them, would never exert himself to restrain the wild giddiness of his youngest daughters; and her mother, with manners so far from right herself, was entirely insensible of the evil.
When she saw him thus seeking the acquaintance, and courting the good opinion of people with whom any intercourse a few months ago would have been a disgrace; when she saw him thus civil, not only to herself, but to the very relations whom he had openly disdained, and recollected their last lively scene in Hunsford Parsonage, the difference, the change was so great, and struck so forcibly on her mind, that she could hardly restrain her astonishment from being visible.
It seemed to me that he was making desperate efforts to restrain a convulsive attack of laughter.
Watson could not restrain a cry of amazement.
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