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Definition of restrain : 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.
2. To draw back toghtly, as a rein.
3. To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge.
4. To limit; to confine; to restrict.
5. To withhold; to forbear.

Synonyms:

leap, prevail, keep, measure, keep from, qualify, direct, proceed, bit, govern, trammel, continue, pinch, bear, guard, secure, snare, retain, obtain, tighten, strangulate, repress, capture, hold open, fix, admit, deem, keep open, harbor, rule, take a hop, concur, reverberate, throw, jump, rebound, conceal, bottle up, declare, defy, stifle, spring, determine, strangle, specify, ensnare, hold, pen in, bust, restraint, impound, hold in, hold off, go along, nail, maintain, go on, disturb, shut in, take for, stiffen, accommodate, circumscribe, seize, tame, pull back, rein, view as, nurse, run in, resile, delimit, withstand, apply, defend, in, throttle, turn back, tie down, ricochet, halt, shut away, define, oblige, nick, support, take prisoner, keep down, enclose, forbear, come down on, give, entertain, hold back, stay fresh, cut back, pick up, tighten up, reserve, trap, take, muzzle, apprehend, harbour, preserve, guide, silence, save, have got, harness, obligate, imprison, bounce, hold down, take hold, handle, cumber, take into custody, recoil, make, regulate, go for, agree, hold up, carry, hold on, set, withhold, chain, keep back, sit on, nab, lock in, celebrate, make prisoner, pull in, book, sustain, concord, have, adjudge, quarantine, arrest, wait, gag, observe, contain, keep on

cramp, burden, entangle, jam, frustrate, complicate, tangle, dam, bung, baffle, block, snag, delay, handicap, cripple, constrain, detain, drag, stop, brake, clog, entrap, impede, hamstring, congest, restrict, resist, curb, snarl, obstruct, thwart, counter, fetter, mire, constipate, hamper, stay, catch, plug, hinder, foul, encumber, bottleneck, impair, paralyze, crimp, oppose, choke, interrupt

edge, end, bound, border, limit, terminate, rim

dampen, deter, dishearten, ban, depress, prevent, dissuade, bar, avert, discourage, intimidate, check, daunt, admonish, chill, divert, disincline, inhibit, derail, deflect

quiet, relax, abate, calm, moderate, alleviate, pacify, ease, compose, soothe, cool, subdue, tranquilize, soften

leash, confine, shackle, tether, collar, constrict, bridle, bind

outlaw, preclude, control, deny, forbid, curtail, oppress, disqualify, disallow, refuse, disapprove, reject, suppress, prohibit

Usage examples:

• The excited Kaed could no longer restrain himself. - "Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846", James Richardson.
• He had been told that he had better restrain himself from writing to Mary, and he had restrained himself. - "The Duke's Children", Anthony Trollope.
• It was quite as necessary that she should restrain herself before her son as before all those others who had gazed at her in court. - "Orley Farm", Anthony Trollope.