restrained
/ɹɪˈstɹeɪnd/ adjective C1- Held back, limited, kept in check or under control. · He greeted her for the first time in three years with a restrained embrace.
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But pride restrained him and he did not utter it.
de Blacas, taking his hand, restrained him.
But the kings of modern times, restrained by the limits of mere probability, have neither courage nor desire.
His dark, hairy hands were clenched in a convulsion of restrained emotion.
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